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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. Note
- that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
- for details.
+ storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. This is
+ normally the name of a credential helper with possible
+ arguments, but may also be an absolute path with arguments or, if
+ preceded by `!`, shell commands.
++
+Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
+for details and examples.
credential.useHttpPath::
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
@@ -24,3 +28,9 @@ credential.<url>.*::
credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP::
Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
+
+credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS::
+ The length of time, in milliseconds, for git-credential-store to retry
+ when trying to lock the credentials file. Value 0 means not to retry at
+ all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for
+ 1s).