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credential-store: document the file format a bit more

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Reading a malformed credential URL line and silently ignoring it
does not mean that we support empty lines and/or "# commented" lines
forever.  We should document it to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ stored on its own line as a URL like:
https://user:pass@example.com
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No other kinds of lines (e.g. empty lines or comment lines) are
allowed in the file, even though some may be silently ignored. Do
not view or edit the file with editors.
When Git needs authentication for a particular URL context,
credential-store will consider that context a pattern to match against
each entry in the credentials file. If the protocol, hostname, and