Merge branch 'bn/http-cookiefile-config'

"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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 6e97e1e05e..536b6e624a 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1679,11 +1679,12 @@ http.extraHeader::
 	config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
 
 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 linkgit: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::