interface to scripts which may want to retrieve, store, or prompt for
credentials in the same manner as Git. The design of this scriptable
interface models the internal C API; see
-link:technical/api-credentials.txt[the Git credential API] for more
+link:technical/api-credentials.html[the Git credential API] for more
background on the concepts.
git-credential takes an "action" option on the command-line (one of