Merge branch 'js/submodule-relative'

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index 199307ca0aa435b998757292a07961105f34983e..adb6f0c8962377b3dc04fcdc948e40bfbd132a1b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ Data Structures
 The `helpers` member of the struct is a `string_list` of helpers.  Each
 string specifies an external helper which will be run, in order, to
 either acquire or store credentials. See the section on credential
-helpers below.
+helpers below. This list is filled-in by the API functions
+according to the corresponding configuration variables before
+consulting helpers, so there usually is no need for a caller to
+modify the helpers field at all.
 +
 This struct should always be initialized with `CREDENTIAL_INIT` or
 `credential_init`.
@@ -180,7 +183,7 @@ 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 in the configuration
-variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]).
+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:
 
@@ -293,6 +296,6 @@ helpers will just ignore the new requests).
 See also
 --------
 
-linkgit:../gitcredentials[7]
+linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
 
-linkgit:../git-config[5] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)
+linkgit:git-config[5] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)