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A gentle introduction to contributing to open source projects / open source sprints
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talk about git credentials #171

Open seawolf42 opened 6 years ago

seawolf42 commented 6 years ago

a few people have been confused by being continually prompted for credentials at the command line, and at least one was logged into github using a different account than they cloned from, causing serious confusion when they tried to push

chalmerlowe commented 5 years ago

@seawolf42 This sounds very useful.

chalmerlowe commented 1 year ago

In regards to git credentials, we need some coverage: a number of folks at the Pycon2023 got derailed cause of changes to github that led to them being unable to proceed with the workshop due to cred issues.

I was not mentoring at the time, so I did not see the errors first hand. If memory serves, we were able to fix the issue with Github Personal Access Tokens....