Hello all,
I spent a frustrating hour today hoping to setup git-send-email with
my gmail account. I've been able to confirm the following:
1. git credential works
# git config credential.helper
osxkeychain
# git credential fill <<EOF
protocol=smtp
host=smtp.gmail.com
EOF
outputs the correct username and password for my gmail account.
2. I (believe) I setup gitconfig properly:
# git config --get-regexp sendemail
sendemail.smtpserver smtp.gmail.com
sendemail.smtpuser ben.knoble@xxxxxxxxx
sendemail.smtpencryption tls
sendemail.smtpserverport 587
sendemail.multiedit true
sendemail.annotate true
The strange behavior I'm seeing is that git-send-email
- prompted me via macOS for keychain access (expected). This happened
twice in a row, during one command invocation.
- prompted me at the terminal for my gmail password (shudders)
- stopped prompting me for messages send after that (all within the 15
minutes of the first two)
Can anyone confirm/explain what's going on? I've never tried to use
git-credential or git-send-email before, so I'm new to those (but
experienced in git).
D. Ben Knoble
