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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcredentials.txt1
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
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
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 6df50e8a14..d6665d2f31 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ 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