| commit | 515360f9e9be976344e3d21cf6f28dcd2ff3c4f9 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | Mon May 01 17:21:14 2017 -0700 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue May 02 10:58:06 2017 +0900 |
| tree | 2d580e9d9674c92e2efb1ba673199e343cba5a61 | |
| parent | 3b9e3c2cede15057af3ff8076c45ad5f33829436 [diff] |
credential doc: make multiple-helper behavior more prominent Git's configuration system works by reading multiple configuration files in order, from general to specific: - first, the system configuration /etc/gitconfig - then the user's configuration (~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config) - then the repository configuration (.git/config) For single-valued configuration items, the latest value wins. For multi-valued configuration items, values accumulate in that order. For example, this allows setting a credential helper globally in ~/.gitconfig that git will try to use in all repositories, regardless of whether they additionally provide another helper. This is usually a nice thing --- e.g. I can install helpers to use my OS keychain and to cache credentials for a short period of time globally. Sometimes people want to be able to override an inherited setting. For the credential.helper setting, this is done by setting the configuration item to empty before giving it a new value. This is already documented but the documentation is hard to find --- git-config(1) says to look at gitcredentials(7) and the config reference in gitcredentials(7) doesn't mention this issue. Move the documentation to the config reference to make it easier to find. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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