From: Koji Nakamaru <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:11:26 GMT
Subject: Re: git credential management Mac OS
Message-ID: <CAOTNsDwaVGrpcuT42RUt37NPm9PwnrLz3dJv7JEfRLd4krY_KQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEbzv6TfMai+vu76Jw157KyMNScwW6pUZaDXbN_u-XRKz_3wnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM Lukas Michael <lukas.23022005@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to know if there is a possibility to set my GitHub PAT as
> credential without the need to clone or push a repository at the
> moment. I want to setup my Mac and store the token for further git
> clone / push operations which then need the token.

You can utilize "git credential approve" as below:

cat <<EOF | git credential approve
protocol=https
host=github.com
username=$USER
password=$PAT
EOF

Koji Nakamaru