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author | M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> | 2025-01-10 22:54:37 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-01-10 15:10:00 -0800 |
commit | a90ff409f0490aef6266f17656fa626154af9715 (patch) | |
tree | 3700f2656b8e775fdfce2548a5f255d0f5cc02fe /builtin/commit.c | |
parent | cf5b8276dcfdad44f02c082a934be5589ff14586 (diff) |
docs: discuss caching personal access tokens
Describe problems storing personal access tokens in git-credential-cache
and suggest alternatives.
Research suggests that many users are confused about this:
> the point of passwords is that (ideally) you memorise them [so]
> they're never stored anywhere in plain text. Yet GitHub's personal
> access token system seems to basically force you to store the token in
> plain text?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46645843/where-to-store-my-git-personal-access-token#comment89963004_46645843
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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