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| author |  Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com> | 2016-05-27 16:39:57 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-27 14:49:02 -0700 |
| commit | 66409881238702fa6351e655f6aec8675c4b346f (patch) | |
| tree | 6f459d690337eda38d1afece311ec46a3fdbe0ea | |
| parent | Sync with maint (diff) | |
| download | tgif-66409881238702fa6351e655f6aec8675c4b346f.tar.xz | |
Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA
For those who use two-factor authentication with gmail, git-send-email
will not work unless it is setup with an app-specific password. The
example for setting up git-send-email for use with gmail will now
include information on generating and storing the app-specific password.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -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: |