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Merge branch 'mh/doc-credential-url-prefix' into maint-2.51

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Doc update to describe a feature that has already been implemented.

* mh/doc-credential-url-prefix:
  docs/gitcredentials: describe URL prefix matching
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Junio C Hamano
2025-10-15 10:29:34 -07:00
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@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ pattern in the config file. For example, if you have this in your config file:
username = foo
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then we will match: both protocols are the same, both hosts are the same, and
the "pattern" URL does not care about the path component at all. However, this
context would not match:
then we will match: both protocols are the same and both hosts are the same.
However, this context would not match:
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[credential "https://kernel.org"]
@@ -166,11 +165,11 @@ match: Git compares the protocols exactly. However, you may use wildcards in
the domain name and other pattern matching techniques as with the `http.<URL>.*`
options.
If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this too must match
exactly: the context `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` will match a config
entry for `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` (in addition to matching the config
entry for `https://example.com`) but will not match a config entry for
`https://example.com/bar`.
If the "pattern" URL does include a path component, then this must match
as a prefix path: the context `https://example.com/bar` will match a config
entry for `https://example.com/bar/baz.git` but will not match a config entry for
`https://example.com/other/repo.git` or `https://example.com/barry/repo.git`
(even though it is a string prefix).
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS