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api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly

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The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very
end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it
was not very clear what the specification was about.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Matthieu Moy 2012-06-04 22:17:43 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply
longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored
in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk).
Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed
by git into a command to be executed using these rules:
Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration
variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]).
The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using
these rules:
1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell
snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command.