From patchwork Thu Oct 27 04:45:47 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: M Hickford X-Patchwork-Id: 13021581 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552C5C38A2D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233810AbiJ0Epy (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:45:54 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34416 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233280AbiJ0Epw (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:45:52 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x32b.google.com (mail-wm1-x32b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::32b]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3D3F4C037 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-x32b.google.com with SMTP id c7-20020a05600c0ac700b003c6cad86f38so3236503wmr.2 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:45:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:fcc:subject:date:from :message-id:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=EnegFuN5XaMy6ZTRb+rJBeGiKqjgzdEpXXwgWhB44oQ=; b=cjyDzfYkQYK9TMDOoZ26jAff3G0NEw6tTnGNFYmR8+oabNyaebVp44Y5F58i/u1kQJ ZVwFIDW9EzOEhWk71L6IuFCSFJDimsdefPTbfNmRGBZUxa99iVaSZeFHkGSsuoSvfaHJ xwHJ1jNhrxdkHNyfKzm/GPGphc5pXgndoci49FFHuTiXU6BhsqV5PV1knz3rQJgQWkBY VBO1zwnpc7GLgzow1OfOVTVlPjCEbussgLvjukBspJZW64ww+GvXnYAM+HqylRIypcix uJDWsoJ2vGq5kwjzba8T7kO5QUB757WiUBGautQHvV6zUuMdV7KCIL8XPY8TQtDu6bAj m5nA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:fcc:subject:date:from :message-id:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=EnegFuN5XaMy6ZTRb+rJBeGiKqjgzdEpXXwgWhB44oQ=; b=OMhOPOu5js7NFhCF5tEDdQ+GwEPk2UnbOYG7p6YCvR+z04wO421N48YaF/w+W0mrbI qOsPk3twNw2SbSrhBe/w+ba+9/AvORGOXXjC5jWVNbajYuYEFI9/6OxFL2+gNTqVBjKr l8t7YiHGhJxgiT9VzbHX5zphegKWSlEDtaa4YM3t7VlG/hiatuIoe9LEoBgE66zmlS9s c078VQ4GAkI1UfY+zWsaXKMjCajyzmoBbOHmSbPoR5AqqgfYHRkSVeezliq/guWRKuMU Rm6CvBZv3UTbDGFwm/EBk72WBE89np1uXlx83EPbfa8LmGgSEv15k3/zhS/3ay97F2ge WMjg== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf2w0BbLUAJUWIgggDae+Lk+o113IrHfn4qJXxs5uN2vfyhtfUuM KwzRYcCLPj86PDR6NhAYgfMrL+dz1mQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM5ekOWOFcdca93+eVsN635yLAhhpwoeVV3jAXeXy8EpW6MvI1tpWR/zW+fkuyk/hTENxkr2EA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:4f81:b0:3c8:3424:8b9 with SMTP id n1-20020a05600c4f8100b003c8342408b9mr4288022wmq.149.1666845949166; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([13.74.141.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n17-20020a05600c501100b003b4fdbb6319sm2031126wmr.21.2022.10.26.21.45.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:45:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that password could be a personal access token. Fcc: Sent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: M Hickford , M Hickford Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org From: M Hickford From: M Hickford These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access token or OAuth access token. Signed-off-by: M Hickford --- Mention that password could be a personal access token. These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access token or OAuth access token. Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1396%2Fhickford%2Fmore-about-credentials-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1396/hickford/more-about-credentials-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1396 Documentation/git-credential.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) base-commit: 1fc3c0ad407008c2f71dd9ae1241d8b75f8ef886 diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index f18673017f5..f3bf0bef54b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ Git understands the following attributes: `password`:: - The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. + The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. If the + host is a software forge, this could also be a personal access + token or OAuth access token. `url`::