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Allow process-specific Git config with "-c" arguments.

See original GitHub issue

See microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core#190 for some context.

To solve the problem, we could allow users to specify config the way they could with Git, using scalar [-c config=value] <verb> and having those arguments pass down into all Git commands. The distance between those two steps is a bit tricky, but perhaps there is a way to do it simply.

The other option would be to do one-off options like scalar clone <url> --access-token "***" for this specific credential issue.

At minimum, the root problem that needs to be solved is: allow a user to specify custom credentials during scalar clone.

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derrickstoleecommented, Oct 20, 2020

Is there a compelling reason to use a -c-like facility over a credential provider, for getting credentials into Scalar? I’m happy to return to the store credential provider,

You should use store if that works for you.

though perhaps -c would be useful in other scenarios I haven’t thought of yet.

This is not the first time this idea has come up. It’s just actually non-trivial (due to how our code is organized AND a bug in the command-line parser library we use). That’s why this issue will not be fast-tracked into the release this week.

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