Re: [PATCH v4] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
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> From: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>
> Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
> needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
> place, otherwise send-email fails with:
>
> 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
> 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
>
> Document steps required to make this work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
> ---
Thanks for tying loose ends. Will replace.
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> Range-diff against v3:
> 1: 274475559a ! 1: 4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
> @@
> ## Metadata ##
> -Author: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
> +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
>
> ## Commit message ##
> git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
> @@ Commit message
>
> Document steps required to make this work.
>
> - Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> + Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> + Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> + [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
>
> ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ##
> @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
>
> Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> index 0a69810147..0db0783f2f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
> @@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
> smtpServerPort = 587
> ----
>
> -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
> +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
> 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:
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>