From patchwork Wed Nov 2 10:30:21 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: M Hickford X-Patchwork-Id: 13027960 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 8D554C433FE for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 10:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230216AbiKBKac (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2022 06:30:32 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49014 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229875AbiKBKa2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2022 06:30:28 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x330.google.com (mail-wm1-x330.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::330]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5240362ED for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 03:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-x330.google.com with SMTP id p16so4806060wmc.3 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:30:25 -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 :references:in-reply-to:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=qyblppFnyYzYHCFfhSPVqoON5gGsjC4eXgBGOvcv8X8=; b=Fk6kcI/JcpNLi1GM+h7MAGsjKPaRwlSTeI34eWWKGvobIGqXZEiCf1NtjTWxEP49Do r/0PQgYPgGv85H0VYWDUR0niEgX/eeapDxvAJEZqSWUj62U61FbEYjPiUkoT0jYEBEeZ /JUAHYKoKnSdLlSbWNWjEBzBqQkHn5sC/5OAVTVditEafQGttgX1i5FsA+tp8WPfrxwU plUuTyzW5I0ROGNhfhf+6MmXE37k+cY+Z0GgTlONaDMb5dwru9puG8PdhLgVDwK+IrtX JkXPFjRHmTlvy8EBxphkDX9l4bcT1UCyQNa8NLC/HVPJnOY+veCo/XZRvW1zKl+yGQhc 14MA== 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 :references:in-reply-to:message-id:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=qyblppFnyYzYHCFfhSPVqoON5gGsjC4eXgBGOvcv8X8=; b=1Ms+/NJCWfTvvIDMlwwJLuH7NGaxH4GVJRmqdLj+n+Pb7Lj8udro4/kBe2IpsSqNsz OmRdhZXAKgf2WWtMlZ2m8Tlm06rhZVqy6Kgm97da+nqzapOa2nIGuiJyAVAecepqg3r+ 8fxjqdJb/nFeMy7rM7rJWaikDPQD4dLfp5S6XY51kcScuPWpgxkmk+J9NLXN/fxssFzs kwrALcZpopjNYAo95D5EyLmyEuIOSKmL9ysaVRxJ8b5J+6myUfJ+pq8JYwXw3zU63q/w uuYvY9sLC9xfvI9qlJbO6BCDDGHc0uYLfEMEuqCp6iMCIJ7866raajoq+iZB73tVyTbd Ee4w== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf30wBheCND2yD2pXmhpxozYyVrw7UR0oyQaQBYKrmjJPknSGh53 WFjUFr5E1nFoO+Yvjy1O/pfTln+visI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM5ffIL1ZkDzCK2Fu8HKVlQSLBiWcW9hGGckMcYHihynHOC89oy5UZzD96692rv+B8/uVID5XQ== X-Received: by 2002:a7b:cd99:0:b0:3cf:7556:a52c with SMTP id y25-20020a7bcd99000000b003cf7556a52cmr8657329wmj.53.1667385023527; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([13.74.141.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a1-20020a05600c348100b003cf55844453sm1634185wmq.22.2022.11.02.03.30.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:30:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2] Mention that password could be a personal access token. Fcc: Sent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jeff King , =?utf-8?b?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , 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. These are popular, so worth clarifying that Git treats them just the same. 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-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1396/hickford/more-about-credentials-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1396 Range-diff vs v1: 1: fef359f533a < -: ----------- Mention that password could be a personal access token. -: ----------- > 1: 0bb69988ad7 Mention that password could be a personal access token. Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) base-commit: c03801e19cb8ab36e9c0d17ff3d5e0c3b0f24193 diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index 80517b4eb2c..402e067a6ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ in order to access a remote repository over HTTP. This manual describes the mechanisms Git uses to request these credentials, as well as some features to avoid inputting these credentials repeatedly. +Some repositories accept multiple passwords, including personal access +tokens and OAuth access tokens. Git handles all of these the same. + REQUESTING CREDENTIALS ----------------------