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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2011-12-10 05:31:38 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-12-11 23:16:25 -0800 |
| commit | a6fc9fd3f4b42cd97b5262026e18bd451c28ee3c (patch) | |
| tree | d1b6aa3649a51c37149e2d0d5477de46fe6c4d87 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | a78fbb4fb6c69d96cb91dee9d4733d2326c6d019 (diff) | |
| download | git-a6fc9fd3f4b42cd97b5262026e18bd451c28ee3c.tar.gz | |
docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt. This presents the end-user
view.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 5a841da6d4..36bcdf2ca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -832,6 +832,29 @@ commit.template:: "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's home directory. +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. See + linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details. + +credential.useHttpPath:: + When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http + or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See + linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. + +credential.username:: + If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username + by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and + linkgit:gitcredentials[7]. + +credential.<url>.*:: + Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to + some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username" + would set the default username only for https connections to + example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are + matched. + include::diff-config.txt[] difftool.<tool>.path:: |