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Abandoned command-line interface to GitHub and other central git services
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pull-request pass credentials from cmd #179

Closed bmihaescu closed 6 years ago

bmihaescu commented 6 years ago

Hi,

Is there a way to pass the username and password for the github repo from the cmd ?

Something like this git-hub pull-request --issue="merge into master" staging:master -user USERNAME -pass PASSWORD

Or to get them from a file

Thanks

seveas commented 6 years ago

git-hub would rather not know your username and password at all :smile: It asks for them only once: to create a token for further authentication, this token is then stored either in a file, or in your configured credential helper.

Passing a username and password on the commandline is insecure in shared environments: everybody can read those while the process is running. Reading the username and password from a file would mean that they need to be in a file in the first place, which I'd rather avoid too. The token already ends up in a file.