Do not store token in files commonly backed up or shared via dotfiles

[lee-dohm]

Many people, including myself, share their configurations for both Atom and Git to help others learn about various features. Storing the GitHub auth token in either the Atom config or Git config would mean that this would publish the token to the public Internet which is generally not advisable.

I suggest something like ~/.atom/glist.token to store the Gist auth token separately from non-security-related configuration.

[jcouyang]

sorry didn't get the point, how would a local configure in atom will be published on internet

[lee-dohm]

I publish all my dotfiles to Github to share with others and to sync between machines:

https://github.com/lee-dohm/dotfiles

[lee-dohm]

:+1: Thanks!