From: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:39:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1464381597-27634-1-git-send-email-rappazzo@gmail.com> (raw)
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.
---
Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 771a7b5..edbba3a 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:
--
2.8.0
next reply other threads:[~2016-05-27 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-27 20:39 Michael Rappazzo [this message]
2016-05-27 21:06 ` [PATCH] Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA Junio C Hamano
2016-05-27 21:17 ` Mike Rappazzo
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