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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-02-27 21:08:57 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-02-27 21:08:57 +0300 |
| commit | 7dc55a04d8da6f430ee9a0c07d68c6098a9dea15 (patch) | |
| tree | 12793faa2ff6c51ccc05aa61275123891021e9ee /Documentation | |
| parent | 5e572aaa5d5b116739e586be615c1ed7d7d3e9d1 (diff) | |
| parent | d208bfdfef97a1e8fb746763b5057e0ad91e283b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'mh/credential-password-expiry'
The credential subsystem learned that a password may have an
explicit expiration.
* mh/credential-password-expiry:
credential: new attribute password_expiry_utc
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-credential.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index ac2818b9f6..29d184ab82 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ Git understands the following attributes: The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. +`password_expiry_utc`:: + + Generated passwords such as an OAuth access token may have an expiry date. + When reading credentials from helpers, `git credential fill` ignores expired + passwords. Represented as Unix time UTC, seconds since 1970. + `url`:: When this special attribute is read by `git credential`, the diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index 4522471c33..100f045bb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ helper:: If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration 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. +non-expired 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 |