Re: [PATCH] Mention that password could be a personal access token.
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> FWIW, I had the same reaction. From the client perspective for https,
> this is going over basic-auth, and it might be nice to just say so. But
> of course the whole credential system is abstract, so it gets awkward.
> We could probably say something like:
>
> The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. Note that
> this may not strictly be a traditional password, but rather any secret
> string which is used for authentication. For instance, Git's HTTP
> protocol will generally pass this using an Authorization header;
> depending on what the server is expecting this may be a password typed
> by the user, a personal access token, or some other opaque value.
Thanks. I have no problem with this replacement text.
> Maybe that is getting too into the weeds. OTOH, anybody reading this far
> into git-credential(1) is probably pretty technical.