From: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dirk@ed4u.de, sunshine@sunshineco.com, peff@peff.net,
gitster@pobox.com, jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/4] credential-store: document the file format a bit more
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:52:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428105254.28658-1-carenas@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428104858.28573-1-carenas@gmail.com>
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reading a malformed credential URL line and silently ignoring it
does not mean that we promise to torelate and/or keep empty lines
and "# commented" lines forever.
Some people seem to take anything that is not explicitly forbidden
as allowed, but the world does not work that way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/git-credential-store.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
index 693dd9d9d7..76b0798856 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ stored on its own line as a URL like:
https://user:pass@example.com
------------------------------
+No other kinds of lines (e.g. empty lines or comment lines) are
+allowed in the file, even though some may be silently ignored. Do
+not view or edit the file with editors.
+
When Git needs authentication for a particular URL context,
credential-store will consider that context a pattern to match against
each entry in the credentials file. If the protocol, hostname, and
--
2.26.2.569.g1d74ac4d14
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-26 23:47 [PATCH] git-credential-store: skip empty lines and comments from store Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 0:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-27 0:46 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 8:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 11:52 ` Jeff King
2020-04-27 12:25 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 14:43 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-27 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-27 19:09 ` Jeff King
2020-04-27 12:59 ` [PATCH v3] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 13:48 ` Philip Oakley
2020-04-28 1:49 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 10:09 ` Philip Oakley
2020-04-27 15:39 ` Dirk
2020-04-27 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-27 19:18 ` Jeff King
2020-04-27 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-27 21:10 ` Jeff King
2020-04-28 1:37 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-27 23:49 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 5:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-04-28 5:41 ` Jeff King
2020-04-28 7:18 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 8:16 ` Jeff King
2020-04-28 11:25 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 10:58 ` Stefan Tauner
2020-04-28 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-28 21:14 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-28 10:48 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] credential-store: prevent fatal errors Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 10:52 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [this message]
2020-04-28 10:52 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] git-credential-store: skip empty lines and comments from store Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 16:09 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-28 16:42 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 10:52 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] git-credential-store: fix (WIP) Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 16:11 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-28 17:14 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 10:52 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] credential-store: make sure there is no regression with missing scheme Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-28 16:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] credential-store: document the file format a bit more Eric Sunshine
2020-04-28 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-28 18:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 0:33 ` [PATCH v5] credential-store: warn instead of fatal for bogus lines from store Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 4:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 7:31 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 16:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 20:35 ` [RFC PATCH v6 0/2] credential-store: prevent fatal errors Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 20:35 ` [RFC PATCH v6 1/2] credential-store: warn instead of fatal for bogus lines from store Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 20:35 ` [RFC PATCH v6 2/2] credential-store: warn for any incomplete credentials instead of using Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 21:49 ` [RFC PATCH v6 2/2] credential-store: warn for any incomplete credentials instead of usingy Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 23:23 ` [PATCH v6] credential-store: warn instead of fatal for bogus lines from store Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-29 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-29 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-30 1:00 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-30 1:19 ` [PATCH v7] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-30 9:29 ` [PATCH v8] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-30 16:06 ` [PATCH v9] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-30 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-30 21:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 0:30 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-01 1:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 2:24 ` Carlo Arenas
2020-05-01 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 13:57 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-01 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-01 3:21 ` [RFC PATCH v10] credential-store: warn/ignore for bogus lines from store file Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-01 5:18 ` [RFC PATCH v10 2/1] credential-store: warn also for store and erase Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-01 5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-02 18:16 ` [PATCH v10] credential-store: ignore bogus lines from store file Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-02 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-02 21:23 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-02 21:53 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-03 0:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-03 10:06 ` Jeff King
2020-05-02 21:05 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-05-02 22:34 ` [PATCH v11] " Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
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