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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | 6 |
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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. |