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patchsend-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

Subject: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

## tl;dr

4 messages between Oct 1, 2022 and Apr 28, 2023. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

replies: 3people: 3as markdown or json

Jouke Witteveen· Oct 1, 2022, 10:46 UTC · lore

Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022.

This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08).

Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Show changes to Documentation/git-send-email.txt +2 −6

diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 41cd8cb424..0c70ba2647 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -507,14 +507,10 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
 	smtpServerPort = 587
 ----
 
-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
+If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you can
+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:

-- 
2.37.3

brian m. carlson· Oct 2, 2022, 19:11 UTC · re: Jouke Witteveen · lore

Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

On 2022-10-01 at 10:46:09, Jouke Witteveen wrote:

> Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022.
> 
> This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure
> app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08).

This seems reasonable and correct. I remember reading that Google will likely require 2FA for all users in the future, so at some point, we may end up removing the "If you have multi-factor authentication…" clause as well.

-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

Jouke Witteveen· Apr 28, 2023, 11:28 UTC · re: Jouke Witteveen · lore

Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 12:46 PM Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> wrote:

Show 7 quoted lines

>
> Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022.
>
> This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure
> app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>

Half a year has passed and this patch is still relevant, yet (as far as I can tell) not applied.

Regards,
- Jouke

Junio C Hamano· Apr 28, 2023, 20:47 UTC · re: Jouke Witteveen · lore

Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature

Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> writes:

Show 9 quoted lines

>> Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022.
>>
>> This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure
>> app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
>
> Half a year has passed and this patch is still relevant, yet (as far
> as I can tell) not applied.

Yeah, it does not seem to have been applied. Thanks for pinging. Will queue.