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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index 47576be5db..f3a75d1ce1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ strategies to ask the user for usernames and passwords: to the program on the command line, and the user's input is read from its standard output. -2. Otherwise, if the `core.askpass` configuration variable is set, its +2. Otherwise, if the `core.askPass` configuration variable is set, its value is used as above. 3. Otherwise, if the `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable is set, its @@ -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 ------------------- |