netrc should be able to ignore some tokens like 'protocol'
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
netrc._parse() rejects unknown tokens.
So far so good except some tools like git also use netrc files for authentication purposes through git-credential-netrc helper.
The issue is that git-credential-netrc expects a few other tokens like protocol that are currently rejected by netrc._parse()
It would be nice to be able to just ignore those tokens instead of failing the parsing of the netrc file.
I can't tell whether we should just register these exact tokens as "to be ignored", or if it would be better to have a way for netrc users to register the tokens they wish to ignore.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
none found.
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Research direction
Start at the netrc._parse() entry point and inspect how the parser handles the protocol token used by git-credential-netrc. Done means a netrc containing such tokens is parsed without failure while existing parsing behavior remains intact.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100