docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes
It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled. Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
M Hickford committed
Oct 24, 2022 at 07:57 UTC
7fd54b6238e5802147a5ca259c3b5e6b8e06471d
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Documentation/git-credential.txt
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index f18673017f..ac2818b9f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ empty string.
Components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no
username in the example above) will be left unset.
+Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
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index 80517b4eb2..e856e3c833 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ stdout in the same format (see linkgit:git-credential[1] for common
attributes). A helper is free to produce a subset, or even no values at
all if it has nothing useful to provide. Any provided attributes will
overwrite those already known about by Git's credential subsystem.
+Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
While it is possible to override all attributes, well behaving helpers
should refrain from doing so for any attribute other than username and