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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index b7bbbeadef..93708aefea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will +If you have multi-factor authentication set up 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 create it. +If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, +you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit +https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it. + Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: |