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Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA

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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>
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Michael Rappazzo
2016-05-27 16:39:57 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -450,6 +450,19 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
smtpServerPort = 587 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 Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands: following commands: