Fixed #17236 -- Clarified that anonymous session data are retained after login. Thanks krzysiumed for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17704 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/auth.txt b/docs/topics/auth.txt
index cc1e34bb6f..528c7c8718 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth.txt
@@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ Django provides two functions in :mod:`django.contrib.auth`:
     using Django's session framework, so, as mentioned above, you'll need to
     make sure to have the session middleware installed.
 
+    Note that data set during the anonymous session is retained when the user
+    logs in.
+
     This example shows how you might use both
     :func:`~django.contrib.auth.authenticate()` and
     :func:`~django.contrib.auth.login()`::