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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--http.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d3a6de81d..b945d67bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1669,11 +1669,12 @@ http.emptyAuth::
authentication.
http.cookieFile::
- File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+ The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+ which should be used
in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
- NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is only used as
+ NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies::
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4304b80ad..1044f9ba0 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
return git_config_string(&http_proxy_authmethod, var, value);
if (!strcmp("http.cookiefile", var))
- return git_config_string(&curl_cookie_file, var, value);
+ return git_config_pathname(&curl_cookie_file, var, value);
if (!strcmp("http.savecookies", var)) {
curl_save_cookies = git_config_bool(var, value);
return 0;