api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it was not very clear what the specification was about. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Matthieu Moy committed
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@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply
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longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored
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in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk).
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-Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed
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-by git into a command to be executed using these rules:
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+Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration
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+variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]).
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+The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using
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+these rules:
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1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell
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snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command.