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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-10-08 12:17:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-10-08 12:17:55 -0700 |
| commit | 3aa0ced36a53b817a27844c898c0474b9c120db9 (patch) | |
| tree | fee06c1a9bb03d42318a51b4ca2b05bc8c324ac7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8d3abe9f8af706baafedba4283114f94a0cda4a1 (diff) | |
| parent | fdd21ba116551efb07e784f138d090917b7e70ad (diff) | |
| download | git-3aa0ced36a53b817a27844c898c0474b9c120db9.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'mh/doc-credential-url-prefix'
Doc update to describe a feature that has already been implemented.
* mh/doc-credential-url-prefix:
docs/gitcredentials: describe URL prefix matching
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc b/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc index 3337bb475d..60c2cc4ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.adoc @@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ pattern in the config file. For example, if you have this in your config file: username = foo -------------------------------------- -then we will match: both protocols are the same, both hosts are the same, and -the "pattern" URL does not care about the path component at all. However, this -context would not match: +then we will match: both protocols are the same and both hosts are the same. +However, this context would not match: -------------------------------------- [credential "https://kernel.org"] @@ -166,11 +165,11 @@ match: Git compares the protocols exactly. However, you may use wildcards in the domain name and other pattern matching techniques as with the `http.<URL>.*` options. -If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this too must match -exactly: the context `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` will match a config -entry for `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` (in addition to matching the config -entry for `https://example.com`) but will not match a config entry for -`https://example.com/bar`. +If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this must match +as a prefix path: the context `https://example.com/bar` will match a config +entry for `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` but will not match a config entry for +`https://example.com/other/repo.git` or `https://example.com/barry/repo.git` +(even though it is a string prefix). CONFIGURATION OPTIONS |