Re: GitHub: personal access tokens (classic) (was: push to github repo hangs - why?)

In reply to: Graham Perrin : "GitHub: personal access tokens (classic) (was: push to github repo hangs - why?)"
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From: Dale Scott <dalescott_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:25:37 UTC

> From: "Graham Perrin" <grahamperrin@freebsd.org>
> To: "questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 6:58:38 PM
> Subject: GitHub: personal access tokens (classic) (was: push to github repo
> hangs - why?)

> On 26/01/2023 19:57, Tomek CEDRO wrote:

>> … it seems that GitHub does not allow username + password
>> (credentials) auth, but oauth and ssh auth only. …

> From [ https://github.com/settings/tokens | <https://github.com/settings/tokens>
> ] :

>>> … can be used instead of a password for Git over HTTPS, …

> – and push does work for me.
Hi Gramah, I agree, I believe it _should_ work for me too, per documentation. However, now that I've added my public ssh key I can push using " [ mailto:git@github.com:repo_username/repo.git%22 | git@github.com:repo_username/repo.git" ] repo syntax so I'm happy.