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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-credential.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | credential.c | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index afd5365..53adee3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -140,3 +140,15 @@ Git understands the following attributes: `password`:: The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. + +`url`:: + + When this special attribute is read by `git credential`, the + value is parsed as a URL and treated as if its constituent parts + were read (e.g., `url=https://example.com` would behave as if + `protocol=https` and `host=example.com` had been provided). This + can help callers avoid parsing URLs themselves. Note that any + components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no + username in the example above) will be set to empty; if you want + to provide a URL and override some attributes, provide the URL + attribute first, followed by any overrides. diff --git a/credential.c b/credential.c index 2c40007..e54753c 100644 --- a/credential.c +++ b/credential.c @@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ int credential_read(struct credential *c, FILE *fp) } else if (!strcmp(key, "path")) { free(c->path); c->path = xstrdup(value); + } else if (!strcmp(key, "url")) { + credential_from_url(c, value); } /* * Ignore other lines; we don't know what they mean, but |