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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-04-25 13:28:57 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-04-25 13:28:57 +0900 |
| commit | f8fbcd6e01d8e31fb1c7093679538df79b79d90e (patch) | |
| tree | 37b9cd0789f97a73f437c855ce2d45ee6a7a74e1 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ak/bisect-doc-typofix' (diff) | |
| parent | send-email: simplify Gmail example in the documentation (diff) | |
| download | tgif-f8fbcd6e01d8e31fb1c7093679538df79b79d90e.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mn/send-email-credential-doc'
Doc update.
* mn/send-email-credential-doc:
send-email: simplify Gmail example in the documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 71ef97ba9b..af07840b4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -473,16 +473,7 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, 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 - +https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: @@ -491,6 +482,11 @@ following commands: $ edit outgoing/0000-* $ git send-email outgoing/* +The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the +app-specific or your regular password as appropriate. If you have credential +helper configured (see linkgit:git-credential[1]), the password will be saved in +the credential store so you won't have to type it the next time. + Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL, MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL |