Configuration Account Documentation

[feraxhp]

Hi, sorry I try to configure Gitea, in order to use the tool, but i wasn't able to find any documentation, just for GitHub and Bugzilla. It will also be nice to see how to configure GitLab.

[herrhotzenplotz]

Hey! Thanks for reporting this!

I guess you were reading the tutorial.

There is some documentation in the gcli(5) manual page regarding Gitea and Gitlab however this situation can be dramatically improved.

For now here's what you need to do for these two undocumented forges:

Gitlab

• Generate a token:
  • Go to Preferences (top left)
  • Choose Access tokens
  • Click Add new token
  • Choose a reasonable token name (e.g. gcli $(hostname))
  • Choose a reasonable expiration date
  • Select the api scope
  • Click Create personal access token
  • Save the access token
• Add a new account in your gcli config:

defaults {
    ...
    gitlab-default-account=gitlab-com
}

gitlab-com {
    account=<the-user-name-at-the-forge>
    token=<the-token-you-just-created>
    apibase=https://gitlab.com/api/v4
    forge-type=gitlab
}

Now when you run gcli -t gitlab issues -o herrhotzenplotz -r gcli you should get a list of issues.

Gitea

The steps are roughly the same here as with Gitlab.

NOTE: This might be broken for either Forgejo (which is a fork of Gitea) or vice versa.

• Generate a token:
  • Go to Settings (top right)
  • Choose Applications on the left
  • Choose a reasonable token name
  • Click Generate token
• Add a new account in you gcli config:

defaults {
    ...
    gitea-default-account=codeberg-org
}

codeberg-org {
    account=<the-user-name-at-the-forge>
    token=<the-token-you-just-created>
    apibase=https://codeberg.org/api/v1
    forge-type=gitea
}

This stuff needs to go into at least the tutorial and maybe also the manual pages. If you want to have a go at this, please feel free and submit your patches or report back!

[gbowne1]

Yeah I too was wondering where the gitea and codeberg docs were :-)