From: Philip Oakley Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:30:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Mention that password could be a personal access token. Message-ID: <83d3c28b-9b33-fa17-c0ca-85e790e52dad@iee.email> In-Reply-To: On 02/11/2022 15:51, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:45 AM Junio C Hamano wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:55 AM Eric Sunshine wrote: >>> How about a different approach, calling it a "secret" first, and then >>> defining "secret" as different names for "password". >> Or more directly, say "password" and parenthetically add that some hosting >> sites may call it with different names like "personal tokens"? > I tried the parenthetical approach first but the sentence structure > became too complex and more difficult to understand. Having a separate > sentence helped simplify. That said, perhap something like this? > > Git will sometimes need credentials from the user in order to > perform operations; for example, it may need to ask for a username > and password in order to access a remote repository over HTTP. In Perhaps s/password/secret 'password'/ here 9above0, and then talk about the names for that "secret" in the follow up sentence below. > place of a password, some sites may instead provide a passcode, > personal access token, OAuth access token, etc. This manual... -- Philip