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Create Personal Access Token on GitHub

From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings => Personal Access Token => Generate New Token (Give your password) => Fillup the form => click Generate token => Copy the generated Token, it will be something like ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta

  1. For Windows OS

    Go to Credential Manager from Control Panel => Windows Credentials => find git:https://github.com => Edit => On Password replace with with your GitHub Personal Access Token => You are Done

    If you don’t find git:https://github.com => Click on Add a generic credential => Internet address will be git:https://github.com and you need to type in your username and password will be your GitHub Personal Access Token => Click Ok and you are done

  2. For macOS

    Click on the Spotlight icon (magnifying glass) on the right side of the menu bar. Type Keychain access then press the Enter key to launch the app => In Keychain Access, search for github.com => Find the internet password entry for github.com => Edit or delete the entry accordingly => You are done

  3. For a Linux-based OS

    For Linux, you need to configure the local GIT client with a username and email address,

    git config --global user.name "your_github_username"

    git config --global user.email "your_github_email"

    git config -l

    Once GIT is configured, we can begin using it to access GitHub. Example:

    git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY

     > Cloning into `YOUR-REPOSITORY`...
 Username: <type your username>
 Password: <type your password or personal access token (GitHub)

    Now cache the given record in your computer to remembers the token:

    git config --global credential.helper cache

    If needed, anytime you can delete the cache record by:

    git config --global --unset credential.helper

    git config --system --unset credential.helper

    Now try to pull with -v to verify

    git pull -v

    Linux/Debian (Clone as follows):

    git clone https://<tokenhere>@github.com/<user>/<repo>.git

  4. For PhpStorm

    If you are using PhpStorm, go to menu Git => pull and select authentication via Personal Access Token. Enter your PAT it will allow you to pull/push the changes.