Subject: [PATCH v2] Mention that password could be a personal access token.

From: "M Hickford via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:30:21 +0000

From: M Hickford <[email-masked]>

These days, the 'password' for a software forge might be personal access
token or OAuth access token. These are popular, so worth clarifying that
Git treats them just the same.

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-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1396/hickford/more-about-credentials-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1396

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  fef359f533a < -:  ----------- Mention that password could be a personal access token.
 -:  ----------- > 1:  0bb69988ad7 Mention that password could be a personal access token.

 Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 80517b4eb2c..402e067a6ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ in order to access a remote repository over HTTP. This manual describes
 the mechanisms Git uses to request these credentials, as well as some
 features to avoid inputting these credentials repeatedly.
 
+Some repositories accept multiple passwords, including personal access
+tokens and OAuth access tokens. Git handles all of these the same.
+
 REQUESTING CREDENTIALS
 ----------------------

base-commit: c03801e19cb8ab36e9c0d17ff3d5e0c3b0f24193
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