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git-askpass: try harder to launch in the foreground - #745

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git-askpass should launch in the foreground to ask users for their Passwords. We've had reports that it doesn't always launch that way. Try harder to launch in the foreground and avoid callers seemingly hanging while waiting for input in a background window.

This fixes git-for-windows/git#6369

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git-askpass should launch in the foreground to ask users for their
Passwords. We've had reports that it doesn't always launch that way.
Try harder to launch in the foreground and avoid callers seemingly hanging
while waiting for input in a background window.

This fixes git-for-windows/git#6369

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
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Git GUI password popup (for SSH-Key) don't get the focus

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