Re: [PATCH] send-email: fix docs regarding storing password with git credential

2018-04-04 22:14 GMT+01:00 Jeff King : > On the other hand, I'm not sure why we need to pre-seed here. Wouldn't > it be sufficient to just issue a "git send-email", which would then > prompt for the password? And then you'd input your generated token, > which would get saved via the

Re: [PATCH] send-email: fix docs regarding storing password with git credential

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 12:23:48AM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: > First of all, ‘git credential fill’ does not store credentials > but is used to *read* them. The command which adds credentials > to the helper’s store is ‘git credential approve’. Yep, makes sense (I wish we had just called

[PATCH] send-email: fix docs regarding storing password with git credential

First of all, ‘git credential fill’ does not store credentials but is used to *read* them. The command which adds credentials to the helper’s store is ‘git credential approve’. Second of all, git-send-email will include port number in host parameter when getting the password so it has to be set