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Re: [PATCH] Mention that password could be a personal access token.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Oct 27, 2022, 21:48 UTC
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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.
True, too.
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  1. Mention that password could be a personal access token.M Hickford via GitGitGadget, Oct 27, 2022
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2022
  3. Jeff KingOct 27, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2022
  5. M HickfordNov 1, 2022
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  7. M HickfordNov 1, 2022
  8. Mention that password could be a personal access token.M Hickford via GitGitGadget, Nov 2, 2022
  9. Eric SunshineNov 2, 2022
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2022
  11. Eric SunshineNov 2, 2022
  12. Philip OakleyNov 2, 2022
  13. M HickfordNov 8, 2022
  14. Mention that password could be a personal access token.M Hickford via GitGitGadget, Nov 8, 2022
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