From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx>
These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access
token or OAuth access token.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@xxxxxxxxx>
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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(-)
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`::
base-commit: 1fc3c0ad407008c2f71dd9ae1241d8b75f8ef886
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