Merge branch 'jk/credentials'

* jk/credentials:
  t: add test harness for external credential helpers
  credentials: add "store" helper
  strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
  Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
  credentials: add "cache" helper
  docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
  credential: make relevance of http path configurable
  credential: add credential.*.username
  credential: apply helper config
  http: use credential API to get passwords
  credential: add function for parsing url components
  introduce credentials API
  t5550: fix typo
  test-lib: add test_config_global variant

Conflicts:
	strbuf.c

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 8a7d2d4cb..c6630c73e 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -834,6 +834,29 @@ commit.template::
 	"{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the
 	specified user's home directory.
 
+credential.helper::
+	Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
+	password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
+	storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See
+	linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details.
+
+credential.useHttpPath::
+	When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
+	or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
+	linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information.
+
+credential.username::
+	If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username
+	by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
+	linkgit:gitcredentials[7].
+
+credential.<url>.*::
+	Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to
+	some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username"
+	would set the default username only for https connections to
+	example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
+	matched.
+
 include::diff-config.txt[]
 
 difftool.<tool>.path::