![]() If you have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA), you must use a PAT to authenticate programmatically. ![]() GitHub allows you to generate Personal Access Tokens, which you can use instead of your password when authenticating over HTTPS, both for git remotes and the GitHub API. Note for Windows users: the credentials package requires a recent version of Git for Windows. This is convenient for users, and also provides package authors with a mechanism to prompt the user for credentials, without having to take responsibility for managing tokens. This way you can authenticate with the GitHub API using the same token that is used for HTTPS remotes in git and gert. In this post we show how you can take this one step further, and use the credentials package to save your GITHUB_PAT in the git credential store. Thereby credentials are automatically shared between command line git and the gert package, while safely stored by your operating system’s preferred password manager. One of the main features of gert is the out-of-the-box authentication mechanism, which is provided via the new credentials package.Īmong other things, the credentials package makes it possible to save and load https authentication details from the git credential store, which is part of the official command-line git. ![]() We have been working hard behind the scenes on the upcoming release of our new git package named gert, a joint effort from rOpenSci and the Tidyverse team. ![]()
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