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diff --git a/man7/gitcredentials.7 b/man7/gitcredentials.7 index c14863a6c..ba358dd51 100644 --- a/man7/gitcredentials.7 +++ b/man7/gitcredentials.7 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ .\" Title: gitcredentials .\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> -.\" Date: 2023-07-17 +.\" Date: 2023-07-18 .\" Manual: Git Manual -.\" Source: Git 2.41.0.363.g5e238546dc +.\" Source: Git 2.41.0.376.gcba07a324d .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "GITCREDENTIALS" "7" "2023\-07\-17" "Git 2\&.41\&.0\&.363\&.g5e2385" "Git Manual" +.TH "GITCREDENTIALS" "7" "2023\-07\-18" "Git 2\&.41\&.0\&.376\&.gcba07a" "Git Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ $ git config \-\-global credential\&.helper foo .\} .sp .RE +.SS "Available helpers" +.sp +The community maintains a comprehensive list of Git credential helpers at \m[blue]\fBhttps://git\-scm\&.com/doc/credential\-helpers\fR\m[]\&. +.SS "OAuth" +.sp +An alternative to inputting passwords or personal access tokens is to use an OAuth credential helper\&. Initial authentication opens a browser window to the host\&. Subsequent authentication happens in the background\&. Many popular Git hosts support OAuth\&. .SH "CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS" .sp Git considers each credential to have a context defined by a URL\&. This context is used to look up context\-specific configuration, and is passed to any helpers, which may use it as an index into secure storage\&. |