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| author |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2016-02-26 05:51:35 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-02-26 10:58:14 -0800 |
| commit | 24321375cda79f141be72d1a842e930df6f41725 (patch) | |
| tree | cd0e5845a6fba7b3cc32c81d82b75c96643a3a7b /Documentation | |
| parent | Eighth batch for 2.8 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-24321375cda79f141be72d1a842e930df6f41725.tar.xz | |
credential: let empty credential specs reset helper list
Sine the credential.helper key is a multi-valued config
list, there's no way to "unset" a helper once it's been set.
So if your system /etc/gitconfig sets one, you can never
avoid running it, but only add your own helpers on top.
Since an empty value for credential.helper is nonsensical
(it would just try to run "git-credential-"), we can assume
nobody is using it. Let's define it to reset the helper
list, letting you override lower-priority instances which
have come before.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 2cd6bdd7d2..4b85095fc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1113,8 +1113,9 @@ commit.template:: credential.helper:: Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper may consult external - storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See - linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details. + storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note + that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] + for details. credential.useHttpPath:: When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index 1c75be0803..f3a75d1ce1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username, password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a password, no more helpers will be tried. +If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets +the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a +lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper, +followed by whatever set of helpers you would like). + CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS ------------------- |