From: M Hickford via GitGitGadget Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:13:34 GMT Subject: [PATCH v3] Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system restarts Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: M Hickford Signed-off-by: M Hickford --- Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system restarts Make it obvious to readers unfamiliar with Unix sockets. Signed-off-by: M Hickford mirth.hickford@gmail.com Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1447%2Fhickford%2Fpatch-2-v3 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1447/hickford/patch-2-v3 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1447 Range-diff vs v2: 1: e84d069cf19 ! 1: 09f4afae70c Documentation: clarify that cache forgets credentials if the system restarts @@ Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt: git config credential.helper 'cache []' DESCRIPTION ----------- -This command caches credentials in memory for use by future Git -programs. The stored credentials never touch the disk, and are forgotten -after a configurable timeout. The cache is accessible over a Unix -domain socket, restricted to the current user by filesystem permissions. +This command caches credentials for use by future Git programs. +The stored credentials are kept in memory of the cache-daemon +process (instead of written to a file) and are forgotten after a +configurable timeout. Credentials are forgotten sooner if the +cache-daemon dies, for example if the system restarts. The cache +is accessible over a Unix domain socket, restricted to the current +user by filesystem permissions. You probably don't want to invoke this command directly; it is meant to be used as a credential helper by other parts of Git. See base-commit: 5cc9858f1b470844dea5c5d3e936af183fdf2c68 -- gitgitgadget