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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-29 18:06:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-29 18:06:42 -0700 |
| commit | 3a79d4251b65548a446dfd88fcfa43234e9c5f66 (patch) | |
| tree | 85172dab1c33699757aa4bf52b9c358cda89c55c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'kb/msys2-tty' (diff) | |
| parent | Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3a79d4251b65548a446dfd88fcfa43234e9c5f66.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mr/send-email-doc-gmail-2fa'
Give hints to GMail users with two-factor auth enabled that
they need app-specific-password when using send-email.
* mr/send-email-doc-gmail-2fa:
Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 771a7b5b09..edbba3a2ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -450,6 +450,19 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com smtpServerPort = 587 +If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail acocunt, you will +need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit +https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an +app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials +helper: + + $ git credential fill + protocol=smtp + host=smtp.gmail.com + username=youname@gmail.com + password=app-password + + Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: |