credential-store: document the file format a bit more
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>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 28, 2020 at 11:15 UTC
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Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
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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