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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 21:08:28 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-05-31 21:08:28 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'bn/http-cookiefile-config' into maint
"http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. * bn/http-cookiefile-config: http: expand http.cookieFile as a path Documentation: config: improve word ordering for http.cookieFile
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@@ -1669,11 +1669,12 @@ http.emptyAuth::
authentication.
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 `curl(1)`).
- NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is only used as
+ NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies::