support for github access tokens

[apla]

when using github remotes, there is a message about requests quota. to avoid this only solution for now is store login and password on disk unencrypted.

please implement access tokens for github.

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use https://gist.github.com/madrobby/9476733 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604663/github-download-single-files

[jonathanong]

it's the same thing. https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/#via-oauth-tokens

[ukd1]

@jonathanong the docs don't say that, also tokens don't require the username as well. Could you update the docs?

Is it something like:

GITHUB_USERNAME=<token>
GITHUB_PASSWORD=x-oauth-basic

[jonathanong]

yup. i'll add it to the guide.

[jonathanong]

it says you could leave a blank password, but i might have been too strict with that.

[timaschew]

Who says you could leave a blank, github? Why it's too strict?

[jonathanong]

yeah. my checks are too strict because i require you to have a password. but GITHUB_PASSWORD=x-oauth-basic is fine, probably preferable since it's more specific

[dominicbarnes]

Just curious, but I thought the username/password for tokens is the reverse? For example, our netrc files look like:

machine api.github.com
  login x-oauth-token
  password {token}

[jonathanong]

doesn't look like that https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/#via-oauth-tokens

though github probably just made it really flexible because why not

[dominicbarnes]

Haha, yeah that looks to be the case. :P

[sachalifs]

machine api.github.com
    GITHUB_USERNAME=<token>
    GITHUB_PASSWORD=x-oauth-basic

this should totally be on the guide :+1:

[chemzqm]

I've added config github access section to the guide https://github.com/component/guide/blob/master/component/getting-started.md