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| author |  Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> | 2012-06-04 22:17:43 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-06-04 13:49:44 -0700 |
| commit | 365fc8d56a6fdb5a43c71f1c53cc3a67567bf3a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 33b95012cecdb9e6bb2a3ccd2d11559c3d600633 /Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | |
| parent | api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first (diff) | |
| download | tgif-365fc8d56a6fdb5a43c71f1c53cc3a67567bf3a6.tar.xz | |
api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very
end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it
was not very clear what the specification was about.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index fb6db22a46..9a17054b6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk). -Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed -by git into a command to be executed using these rules: +Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration +variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]). +The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using +these rules: 1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command. |