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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Fwd: git clone does not respect command line options
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:57:55 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:23:58PM +0530, Guilherme wrote:

> I did try -c credential.helper= and there was a second problem with that
> because an unset credential.helper is not the same as an empty
> credential.helper. An empty one printed an error because it tried to invoke
> 'git-credential-'.

Exactly. That's why I say that we can take over the empty string to mean
"clear the list"; it's currently nonsensical.

-Peff