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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2012-07-18 08:04:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-18 13:26:48 -0700 |
| commit | 3e5f29e8963a9a6f1774add194ec19583c19fbb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 297dbaad3bd3ac2150e968cdef87e1589709bdd9 /Documentation | |
| parent | 6a9aa0c9b224517db0549d9252fdbc5177e6c0e2 (diff) | |
| download | git-3e5f29e8963a9a6f1774add194ec19583c19fbb6.tar.gz git-3e5f29e8963a9a6f1774add194ec19583c19fbb6.tar.xz | |
docs/credential: minor clarity fixups
The text in git-credential(1) was copied from
technical/api-credentials, so it still talks about the
input/output format as coming from git to the helper. Since
the surrounding text already indicates that this format is
used for reading and writing with git credential, we can
just remove the extraneous confusing bits.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-credential.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index a81684e15..afd536525 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -102,22 +102,20 @@ INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT ------------------- `git credential` reads and/or writes (depending on the action used) -credential information in its standard input/output. These information +credential information in its standard input/output. This information can correspond either to keys for which `git credential` will obtain the login/password information (e.g. host, protocol, path), or to the actual credential data to be obtained (login/password). -The credential is split into a set of named attributes. -Attributes are provided to the helper, one per line. Each attribute is +The credential is split into a set of named attributes, with one +attribute per line. Each attribute is specified by a key-value pair, separated by an `=` (equals) sign, followed by a newline. The key may contain any bytes except `=`, newline, or NUL. The value may contain any bytes except newline or NUL. In both cases, all bytes are treated as-is (i.e., there is no quoting, and one cannot transmit a value with newline or NUL in it). The list of attributes is terminated by a blank line or end-of-file. -Git will send the following attributes (but may not send all of -them for a given credential; for example, a `host` attribute makes no -sense when dealing with a non-network protocol): +Git understands the following attributes: `protocol`:: |