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

From: "M Hickford via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:45:47 +0000

From: M Hickford <[email-masked]>

These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access
token or OAuth access token.

Signed-off-by: M Hickford <[email-masked]>
---
    Mention that password could be a personal access token.
    
    These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access
    token or OAuth access token.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1396%2Fhickford%2Fmore-about-credentials-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1396/hickford/more-about-credentials-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1396

 Documentation/git-credential.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
index f18673017f5..f3bf0bef54b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ Git understands the following attributes:
 
 `password`::
 
-	The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored.
+	The credential's password, if we are asking it to be stored. If the
+	host is a software forge, this could also be a personal access
+	token or OAuth access token.
 
 `url`::

base-commit: 1fc3c0ad407008c2f71dd9ae1241d8b75f8ef886
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