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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcredentials.txt5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2cd6bdd7d2..4b85095fc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1113,8 +1113,9 @@ commit.template::
credential.helper::
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
- storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See
- linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details.
+ storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note
+ that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
+ for details.
credential.useHttpPath::
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 1c75be0803..f3a75d1ce1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username,
password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a
password, no more helpers will be tried.
+If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets
+the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a
+lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper,
+followed by whatever set of helpers you would like).
+
CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS
-------------------