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authorJack Nagel2013-05-23 10:03:08 -0500
committerJack Nagel2013-05-23 10:03:08 -0500
commitcb9e9cf42bd34dababe39d996521a6c09c29732b (patch)
tree109d5a05b5369e44b33f0f1d0f9dc4653cd2eaf3 /Library
parent22523c502b400eb1de1db7368e45b3fc7a61c1ea (diff)
downloadhomebrew-cb9e9cf42bd34dababe39d996521a6c09c29732b.tar.bz2
Clarify API token env var
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-rw-r--r--Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md3
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diff --git a/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md b/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
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+++ b/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
@@ -460,10 +460,11 @@ can take several different forms:
editors will do strange things in this case.
* HOMEBREW\_GITHUB\_API\_TOKEN:
- A personal GitHub API Access token, which you can be create at
+ A personal GitHub API Access token, which you can create at
<https://github.com/settings/applications>. If set, GitHub will allow you a
greater number of API requests. See
<http://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting> for more information.
+ Homebrew uses the GitHub API for features such as `brew search`.
* HOMEBREW\_KEEP\_INFO:
If set, Homebrew will not remove files from `share/info`, allowing them