Re: [PATCH] doc: gitcredentials: introduce OAuth helpers

From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2023, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGJzqs=NbfCt78NtANCxTNJxWG+Oc4bLCjhSSQhrOgr0YWuucg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZHPa27fbAoKL0uGj@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

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> I expect, however, that functionally, that will be difficult to do,
> given the fact that OAuth typically requires registration with the
> remote system, and thus we'd intrinsically be prioritizing some
> well-known forges over less-known or personally-hosted forges, which
> we've traditionally tried not to do.  For example, your
> git-credential-oauth contains a hard-coded list of 11 forges

Forge diversity is my motivation! Consider the average Git user. They contribute to several projects on GitHub. They are deterred from contributing to worthy projects elsewhere by the setup cost of configuring personal access tokens or SSH keys. To use five forges from three machines, you have to generate 15 personal access tokens or upload SSH keys 15 times. Whereas a git-credential-oauth user can contribute to projects on many popular hosts without any setup. That's progress surely.