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docs: clarify that credential discards unrecognised attributes

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It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled.

Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ empty string.
Components which are missing from the URL (e.g., there is no
username in the example above) will be left unset.
Unrecognised attributes are silently discarded.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

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@ -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