From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx>
Make it obvious to readers unfamiliar with Unix sockets.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system
restarts
Make it obvious to readers unfamiliar with Unix sockets.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1447%2Fhickford%2Fpatch-2-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1447/hickford/patch-2-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1447
Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
index 432e159d952..83fb4d4c4dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ 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
+after a configurable timeout. Credentials are forgotten sooner if you
+log out or 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
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