[pass] generate only first line

Von Welch von at vwelch.com
Fri Apr 18 20:51:48 CEST 2014


No difference, which is my point. It would be starting down the slippery
slope of creating a version control system from scratch.

Von



On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, David Collantes <david at bus.ucf.edu> wrote:

> What would the difference be? You are still adding and keeping. I do not
> use
> git with pass.
>
> --
> Dd
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Password-Store [mailto:password-store-bounces at lists.zx2c4.com] On
> > Behalf Of Von Welch
> > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 14:28
> > To: Jimmy Neutron
> > Cc: password-store
> > Subject: Re: [pass] generate only first line
> >
> > +1 to an option to generate a new password and not replace metadata.
> >
> > -1 to later suggestions to store password history in the metadata, that's
> > what git is for. I think writing a script around git to go back and get
> > previous passwords is the way to address that.
> >
> > Von
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Jimmy Neutron <nobody at beta.jpunix.net
> > <mailto:nobody at beta.jpunix.net> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >       As someone who likes to change passwords quite often I really like
> the
> > generate command.
> >       But as I prefer to have metadata alongside the password it would be
> > really useful if pass would only replace the first line of a passfile if
> it
> > regenerates an already existing password.
> >       Otherwise when using generate everything else in the passfile would
> be
> > deleted.
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