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docs: discuss caching personal access tokens
authorM Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:54:37 +0000 (22:54 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:10:00 +0000 (15:10 -0800)
commita90ff409f0490aef6266f17656fa626154af9715
tree3700f2656b8e775fdfce2548a5f255d0f5cc02fe
parentcf5b8276dcfdad44f02c082a934be5589ff14586
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>
Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt