2 Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
3 password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
4 storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. This is
5 normally the name of a credential helper with possible
6 arguments, but may also be an absolute path with arguments or, if
7 preceded by `!`, shell commands.
9 Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
10 for details and examples.
12 credential.interactive::
13 By default, Git and any configured credential helpers will ask for
14 user input when new credentials are required. Many of these helpers
15 will succeed based on stored credentials if those credentials are
16 still valid. To avoid the possibility of user interactivity from
17 Git, set `credential.interactive=false`. Some credential helpers
18 respect this option as well.
20 credential.useHttpPath::
21 When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
22 or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
23 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information.
25 credential.sanitizePrompt::
26 By default, user names and hosts that are shown as part of the
27 password prompt are not allowed to contain control characters (they
28 will be URL-encoded by default). Configure this setting to `false` to
29 override that behavior.
31 credential.protectProtocol::
32 By default, Carriage Return characters are not allowed in the protocol
33 that is used when Git talks to a credential helper. This setting allows
34 users to override this default.
37 If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username
38 by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
39 linkgit:gitcredentials[7].
42 Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to
43 some credentials. For example, "credential.https://example.com.username"
44 would set the default username only for https connections to
45 example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
48 credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP::
49 Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
51 credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS::
52 The length of time, in milliseconds, for git-credential-store to retry
53 when trying to lock the credentials file. A value of 0 means not to retry at
54 all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for