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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 14:08:28 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 14:08:28 -0700
commite646a82ce2828d6e8e3a18fe02dd9b3d31478f00 (patch)
tree7c0bb9c9a082af8e09054af6c370935d0aff9f96 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere' into maint (diff)
parenthttp: expand http.cookieFile as a path (diff)
downloadtgif-e646a82ce2828d6e8e3a18fe02dd9b3d31478f00.tar.xz
Merge branch 'bn/http-cookiefile-config' into maint
"http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. * bn/http-cookiefile-config: http: expand http.cookieFile as a path Documentation: config: improve word ordering for http.cookieFile
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d3a6de81d3..b945d67bc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1669,11 +1669,12 @@ http.emptyAuth::
authentication.
http.cookieFile::
- File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+ The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+ which should be used
in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
- NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is only used as
+ NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies::