Re: [PATCH 2/3] api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 06:10:03PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
>> @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ 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
>> +Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration
>> +variable credential.helper. The string is transformed
>>  by git into a command to be executed using these rules:
>
> They may be in other variables, too (like credential.*.helper). I don't
> know if it is worth making that distinction.
>
> Originally, helpers could also use these specification strings to chain
> to each other, but in the current implementation, there is no chaining
> (it was more important when prompting wasn't automatic, so storage
> helpers would chain to prompting helpers). So I think we can disregard
> that for now, and they really do just appear in config.