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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2018-09-01T19·25+0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-09-01T19·25+0200 |
| commit | c5ab07ec2b4eea5d7f4c5e4ef74d4b274ac943b7 (patch) | |
| tree | e5a497b74785d1aa8a20bf169c17293b78cfb4f8 | |
| parent | 51003f892db0d504f397f12b26b18e185a5b4956 (diff) | |
| parent | 33712fed389976a40ca48631266e5604e8f7e955 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #2168 from grahamc/explain-why-netrc-is-busted
manual: document why ~/.netrc doesn't work
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml index 6a23b8f1fda4..26fe58d043b7 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml @@ -527,7 +527,12 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable> For the exact syntax, see <link xlink:href="https://ec.haxx.se/usingcurl-netrc.html">the - <literal>curl</literal> documentation.</link></para></listitem> + <literal>curl</literal> documentation.</link></para> + + <note><para>This must be an absolute path, and <literal>~</literal> + is not resolved. For example, <filename>~/.netrc</filename> won't + resolve to your home directory's <filename>.netrc</filename>.</para></note> + </listitem> </varlistentry> |