# Incorrect documention for git-credential-store 2 messages from 2014-10-23 to 2014-11-06. Participants: Hopkins, Jesse, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/37790 ## Hopkins, Jesse, 2014-10-23 17:14 Subject: Incorrect documention for git-credential-store Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E3D4929B4BF48B439B609986B0C719EA25896EBB%40HDXDSP52.us.lmco.com ``` The man page for git-credential-store at http://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store and https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-credential-store.html incorrectly state that the option to change the credential storage path is '--store'. The name of the option should be '--file'. I have noticed this running it 1.8.5.3 Regards - Jesse ``` ## Jeff King, 2014-11-06 07:40 Subject: [PATCH] docs/credential-store: s/--store/--file/ Message-ID: <20141106074032.GA25359@peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20141106074032.GA25359%40peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:14:56PM +0000, Hopkins, Jesse wrote: > The man page for git-credential-store at > http://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-credential-store.html > > incorrectly state that the option to change the credential storage > path is '--store'. The name of the option should be '--file'. I have > noticed this running it 1.8.5.3 Thanks. Here's a fix. -- >8 -- The option name "--store" was used early in development, but never even made it into an applied patch, let alone a released version of git. I forgot to update the matching documentation at the time, though. Noticed-by: Jesse Hopkins Signed-off-by: Jeff King --- Documentation/git-credential-store.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index 8481cae..bc97071 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ linkgit:gitcredentials[7] or `EXAMPLES` below. OPTIONS ------- ---store=:: +--file=:: Use `` to store credentials. The file will have its filesystem permissions set to prevent other users on the system -- 2.1.2.596.g7379948 ```