From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:28:57 +0000 (+0900) Subject: Merge branch 'mn/send-email-credential-doc' X-Git-Tag: v2.18.0-rc0~121 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/f8fbcd6e01d8e31fb1c7093679538df79b79d90e Merge branch 'mn/send-email-credential-doc' Doc update. * mn/send-email-credential-doc: send-email: simplify Gmail example in the documentation --- f8fbcd6e01d8e31fb1c7093679538df79b79d90e diff --cc Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 71ef97ba9b,f087d0be49..af07840b4f --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@@ -471,18 -450,9 +471,9 @@@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your accou smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com smtpServerPort = 587 -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail acocunt, you will +If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, 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 - + https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: