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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-02-08 09:14:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-02-08 09:14:42 -0800 |
| commit | c6dea59323c70ae29adaac6a6ec75cf653ad753c (patch) | |
| tree | 174846637e322d035908b9f25a73f90b0872f55b | |
| parent | Merge branch 'gm/request-pull-with-non-pgp-signed-tags' (diff) | |
| parent | Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system restarts (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'mh/doc-credential-cache-only-in-core'
Documentation clarification.
* mh/doc-credential-cache-only-in-core:
Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system restarts
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt index 432e159d95..f473994a86 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt @@ -14,10 +14,13 @@ git config credential.helper 'cache [<options>]' DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command caches credentials in memory for use by future Git -programs. The stored credentials never touch the disk, and are forgotten -after a configurable timeout. The cache is accessible over a Unix -domain socket, restricted to the current user by filesystem permissions. +This command caches credentials for use by future Git programs. +The stored credentials are kept in memory of the cache-daemon +process (instead of written to a file) and are forgotten after a +configurable timeout. Credentials are forgotten sooner if the +cache-daemon dies, for example if the system restarts. The cache +is accessible over a Unix domain socket, restricted to the current +user by filesystem permissions. You probably don't want to invoke this command directly; it is meant to be used as a credential helper by other parts of Git. See |