api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / technical / api-credentials.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index fb6db22a46bdc1ff1e918afc941466aeabe26184..9a17054b6a36511df928154c6859044c0fd98cd9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply
 longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored
 in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk).
 
-Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed
-by git into a command to be executed using these rules:
+Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration
+variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]).
+The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using
+these rules:
 
   1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell
      snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command.