From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ +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
