Re: [PATCH] Infinite re-prompts for user credentials

Alexander Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:34 -0500, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>>> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>>> Sorry for not understanding, but why would a user ever want to be
>>>> re-prompted forever? I've always thought the 3-retries behavior was
>>>> deliberate and friendly.
>>> Yeah, I must agree. -1 on this change, unless perhaps it is implemented as
>>> a configuration option (in the 'servers' file) like 'max_auth_retries'.
>> I had started to type the same as you and Ben, but then I thought
>> perhaps Alex was just modifying this at the API level so that if a
>> tool like RapidSVN wants to provide infinite prompts they can do so?
>> Since I cannot really review the patch and understand it I left it.
>> If that is what he did would it be an OK patch?
>>
> I believe what I did is on the API level. So is it good for commit?

+1 if you change the docstrings to read

   "For infinite retries..."

instead of

   "For infinite retry..."

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