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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2016-05-04 18:42:15 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-04 22:59:26 (GMT)
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http: expand http.cookieFile as a path
This should handle .gitconfig files that specify things like: [http] cookieFile = "~/.gitcookies" Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c0d7bcf..3c0c484 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1598,7 +1598,8 @@ http.proxy::
remote.<name>.proxy
http.cookieFile::
- File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+ The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+ which should be used
in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).