docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / gitcredentials.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 80517b4eb2cb259d7b99528902e3192db2f4166d..e856e3c83300265666950b6c1f199fc21a722561 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ stdout in the same format (see linkgit:git-credential[1] for common
 attributes). A helper is free to produce a subset, or even no values at
 all if it has nothing useful to provide. Any provided attributes will
 overwrite those already known about by Git's credential subsystem.
+Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
 
 While it is possible to override all attributes, well behaving helpers
 should refrain from doing so for any attribute other than username and