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| author | M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> | 2022-10-24 09:57:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> | 2022-11-13 05:57:34 +0100 |
| commit | 7fd54b6238e5802147a5ca259c3b5e6b8e06471d (patch) | |
| tree | 588fd3249e2281120479dd22ecf4df22aed7051d /Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | |
| parent | The eleventh batch (diff) | |
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt 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 |