credential: let helpers tell us to quit

When we are trying to fill a credential, we loop over the
set of defined credential-helpers, then fall back to running
askpass, and then finally prompt on the terminal. Helpers
which cannot find a credential are free to tell us nothing,
but they cannot currently ask us to stop prompting.

This patch lets them provide a "quit" attribute, which asks
us to stop the process entirely (avoiding running more
helpers, as well as the askpass/terminal prompt).

This has a few possible uses:

  1. A helper which prompts the user itself (e.g., in a
     dialog) can provide a "cancel" button to the user to
     stop further prompts.

  2. Some helpers may know that prompting cannot possibly
     work. For example, if their role is to broker a ticket
     from an external auth system and that auth system
     cannot be contacted, there is no point in continuing
     (we need a ticket to authenticate, and the user cannot
     provide one by typing it in).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Author: peff

Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt

@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification).
 For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes
 on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or
 even no values at all if it has nothing useful to provide. Any provided
-attributes will overwrite those already known about by Git.
+attributes will overwrite those already known about by Git.  If a helper
+outputs a `quit` attribute with a value of `true` or `1`, no further
+helpers will be consulted, nor will the user be prompted (if no
+credential has been provided, the operation will then fail).
 
 For a `store` or `erase` operation, the helper's output is ignored.
 If it fails to perform the requested operation, it may complain to

credential.c

@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ int credential_read(struct credential *c, FILE *fp)
 			c->path = xstrdup(value);
 		} else if (!strcmp(key, "url")) {
 			credential_from_url(c, value);
+		} else if (!strcmp(key, "quit")) {
+			c->quit = !!git_config_bool("quit", value);
 		}
 		/*
 		 * Ignore other lines; we don't know what they mean, but
@@ -275,6 +277,9 @@ void credential_fill(struct credential *c)
 		credential_do(c, c->helpers.items[i].string, "get");
 		if (c->username && c->password)
 			return;
+		if (c->quit)
+			die("credential helper '%s' told us to quit",
+			    c->helpers.items[i].string);
 	}
 
 	credential_getpass(c);

credential.h

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ struct credential {
 	struct string_list helpers;
 	unsigned approved:1,
 		 configured:1,
+		 quit:1,
 		 use_http_path:1;
 
 	char *username;

t/t0300-credentials.sh

@@ -289,4 +289,13 @@ test_expect_success 'http paths can be part of context' '
 	EOF
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'helpers can abort the process' '
+	test_must_fail git \
+		-c credential.helper="!f() { echo quit=1; }; f" \
+		-c credential.helper="verbatim foo bar" \
+		credential fill >stdout &&
+	>expect &&
+	test_cmp expect stdout
+'
+
 test_done