From: "M Hickford via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>,
M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:57:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.1393.git.1666598268697.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
---
docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes
It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford mirth.hickford@gmail.com
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1393%2Fhickford%2Funrecognised-attributes-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1393/hickford/unrecognised-attributes-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1393
Documentation/git-credential.txt | 2 ++
Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
index f18673017f5..ac2818b9f66 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ empty string.
Components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no
username in the example above) will be left unset.
+Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 80517b4eb2c..e856e3c8330 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ stdout in the same format (see linkgit:git-credential[1] for common
attributes). A helper is free to produce a subset, or even no values at
all if it has nothing useful to provide. Any provided attributes will
overwrite those already known about by Git's credential subsystem.
+Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
While it is possible to override all attributes, well behaving helpers
should refrain from doing so for any attribute other than username and
base-commit: 1fc3c0ad407008c2f71dd9ae1241d8b75f8ef886
--
gitgitgadget
next reply other threads:[~2022-10-24 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-24 7:57 M Hickford via GitGitGadget [this message]
2022-10-24 23:59 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes Jeff King
2022-10-25 0:00 ` Jeff King
2022-10-25 1:51 ` Thanks M Hickford
2022-10-25 9:05 ` Thanks Bagas Sanjaya
2022-10-26 4:39 ` Thanks M Hickford
2022-10-26 5:18 ` Thanks Jeff King
2022-10-26 9:36 ` Thanks Junio C Hamano
2022-11-12 2:21 ` [PATCH] docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes M Hickford
2022-11-12 16:47 ` Jeff King
2022-11-12 19:08 ` M Hickford
2022-11-14 22:40 ` Jeff King
2022-11-13 4:56 ` Taylor Blau
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