Merge branch 'mr/send-email-doc-gmail-2fa'
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 30 May 2016 01:06:42 +0000 (18:06 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 30 May 2016 01:06:42 +0000 (18:06 -0700)
Give hints to GMail users with two-factor auth enabled that
they need app-specific-password when using send-email.

* mr/send-email-doc-gmail-2fa:
Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA

Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 771a7b5b09157cc1ac19d1f998600f96f1f9a470..edbba3a2ef4ca25827b3a22e7ab2effb50c92165 100644 (file)
@@ -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: