Add --no-browser to Login to skip opening browsers at login
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…nments where our CLI is tricked
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Pull request overview
This PR adds a --no-browser flag to the login command to skip automatic browser opening during authentication. This is useful in environments where browser detection is unreliable or where opening a browser is not possible.
Changes:
- Added a
--no-browserCLI flag with short alias-nto the login command - Updated
do_loginandhandle_device_loginfunctions to accept and respect the browser preference - Refactored browser opening logic to conditionally open browser based on the flag
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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| crates/tower-cmd/src/session.rs | Adds --no-browser argument definition and updates login flow to conditionally open browser |
| crates/tower-cmd/src/lib.rs | Passes argument matches to do_login function |
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| .arg( | ||
| Arg::new("no-browser") | ||
| .long("no-browser") | ||
| .short('n') |
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Sometimes we can't figure out if the user is able to open a browser or not, and we think we opened one when we didn't. Or, we just know that you can't open a browser in a certain context. Thus, this option let's us just blindly skip all that.