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[PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

From
Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 1, 2022, 10:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20221001104609.18453-1-j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022.

This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08).

Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 41cd8cb424..0c70ba2647 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -507,14 +507,10 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
 	smtpServerPort = 587
 ----
 
-If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
-need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
+If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you can
+generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
 https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
 
-If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
-you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
-https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
-
 Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
 following commands:
 
-- 
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  3. Jouke WitteveenApr 28, 2023
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