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Re: [PATCH] send-email: fix docs regarding storing password with git credential

From
Michał Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Date
Apr 7, 2018, 10:08 UTC
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2018-04-04 22:14 GMT+01:00 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> On the other hand, I'm not sure why we need to pre-seed here. Wouldn't
> it be sufficient to just issue a "git send-email", which would then
> prompt for the password? And then you'd input your generated token,
> which would get saved via the approve mechanism?

Yeah, this is precisely what I’ve figured as well. As long as the credentials helper is configured git-send-email will approve the password and it’ll be stored then. New patch sent.

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  2. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2018
  3. send-email: fix docs regarding storing password with git credentialMichal Nazarewicz, Apr 2, 2018
  4. Jeff KingApr 4, 2018
  5. send-email: simplify Gmail example in the documentationMichal Nazarewicz, Apr 7, 2018
  6. Michał NazarewiczApr 7, 2018
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