With awesome tools like GitNub and GitX adding GitHub integration, it would be great if you didn’t have to keep re-entering you username and API token.
So let’s settle on a standard, pioneered by GitNub:
$ git config --global github.user defunkt $ git config --global github.token 6ef8395fecf207165f1a82178ae1b984
(Remember to replace defunkt and <a href="http://github.com/6ef8395fecf207165f1a82178ae1b984">6ef8395fecf207165f1a82178ae1b984</a> with your own username and token.)
Applications and scripts can easily access this information:
$ git config --global github.user defunkt
You can also access ~/.gitconfig directly.
I just pushed out new versions of my gist script and the gist.el mode which use this method. Check the code for examples in Ruby and Emacs Lisp.
If you’re a developer, please adopt this method of storing GitHub data. Your users will thank you!
+1. let’s standardize this!
so, who sends in a patch for GitX? :)
I caved in and did it myself. This is in the latest GitX nightly with the gistie paste stuff.
You should put those two lines on the account page, for easy copy/paste.
@ivey nice idea, this’ll happen in the next push
$ git config—global github.user me $ git config—global github.token mytoken $ git push origin master Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
what did i miss?
nice! comments screw up dash dash and no line breaks. just perfect for the kind of content you guys serve…