Issue when neogit is prompting pinentry-mac on macOS.

[molleweide]

Hi Tim,

I don't know if this really is a bug pertaining to neogit so I create it under discussion here. My problem is as follows:

If I am correct there is an issue with using neogit and gpg pinentry. Personally I am using pinentry-mac as per vim-gnupg
issue thread jamessan/vim-gnupg#32 and it seems I can open an encrypted file with no problems using
the vim built in :edit mydecryptedfile.gpg but committing with neogit and gpg enabled creates problems.

The issue that occurs with neogit, if I am correct, which I might very well not be (maybe this pertains to something else), is something similar to what jamessan/vim-gnupg#32 (comment) is describing.

This is a quote taken from the comment referenced above:

I'm experiencing the same issue described above by several users: Some of my keystrokes on passphrase input are randomly not received. If I'm extremely patient and press some keys over and over until it's received I can eventually get through my whole passphrase. If I successfully open the text file, the passphrase keystrokes that weren't received by the pin entry are inserted into my text file. If I kill the pin entry capture, the missing keystrokes appear in my terminal prompt. This seems like particularly poor security given that many of the characters of my passphrase I'm typing are being piped to god-knows-where.

Important note that I forgot to add first, is that if I use successfully log in to my keychain outside of neovim, or outside of neogit, then neogit will sign commits without a problem. This issue only pertains to when neogit is prompting pinentry-mac.

consistency

I have tried disabling and re-enabling gpg a couple of times and neogit consistently fails with gpg pinentry on my mac.
Please tell me if there is anything you would like to, or recommend me, to test in order to debug the issue.

provided screenshots

success; decrypting with :e

This is a screenshot of successfully opening a decrypted file with pinentry-mac:

This is what it looks like when neogit prompts pinentry:

System and Doom Nvim information

• OS: Darwin / macO 11.5 INTEL
• Neovim version: 0.6.1
• Doom Nvim information:
  • version: 3.2.0
  • doom_root variable: /Users/hjalmarjakobsson/.config/doom-nvim
  • doom_configs_root variable: /Users/hjalmarjakobsson/.config/doom-nvim

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todo

I shall learn how to commit with some other git plugins and try to narrow it down if this issue pertains to neogit.