From 4153274052eea5cf57cbffb6acafb1ec8699820b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "brian m. carlson" Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 23:12:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: document credential.helper allowed values gitcredentials(7) already mentions several possible invocations that one can use as the value for credential.helper. However, many people are not aware that there are other options than a simple credential helper name, so let's place some explanatory text in the documentation for credential.helper as well. We still refer the user to gitcredential(7) for additional explanations and helpful examples. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Acked-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config/credential.txt | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/credential.txt b/Documentation/config/credential.txt index 60fb3189e1..9d01641c28 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/credential.txt @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ 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