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authorVincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com>2020-05-22T16·46+0100
committerVincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com>2020-05-22T16·46+0100
commit5229c9b232de5bfa959ad6ebbb4c8192ac513352 (patch)
tree8539e7e23682cac110900f946f034ae44162cacd /third_party/git/Documentation/config/user.txt
parentf2b211131f2347342dde63975b09cf603149f1a3 (diff)
parent8518a7a51faaf50f830646d4c3585f51236b9349 (diff)
merge(3p/git): Merge git upstream at v2.26.2 r/808
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+++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/config/user.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ committer.email::
 	Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`,
 	`GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`,
 	`GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables.
-	See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information.
++
+Note that the `name` forms of these variables conventionally refer to
+some form of a personal name.  See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the
+environment variables section of linkgit:git[1] for more information on
+these settings and the `credential.username` option if you're looking
+for authentication credentials instead.
 
 user.useConfigOnly::
 	Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`