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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by perlgeek on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:18PM (#3872474)
Not a bug, just a question. 'octogit login' says "You need both a password and username to login". Where do I provide them?
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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by googletron on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:19PM (#3872486)
octogit login <username> <password>

I am updating the site now.

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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by nooooooo on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:36PM (#3872548)
Is it possible to use an oauth-based thing instead? I don't know if github lets you do much with oauth, I'm just a little wary of storing my password in what would presumably be plaintext.
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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by googletron on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:55PM (#3872630)
As soon as they implement a CLI based OAuth, I will definitely add it.

I understand your concerns, but if someone has access to your machine your Github password is the least of your worries.

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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by mofle on Saturday April 21, 2012 @05:49PM (#3873121)
Why would you need that?

You can just request a token[1] using the GitHub API on first load and then use that. I implemented that recently in Pulley[2], which is a GitHub Pull Request Lander.

[1]: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#create-a-new-authoriza...

[2]: https://github.com/jeresig/pulley

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Re:Octogit - Giving git more tentacles by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday April 21, 2012 @05:16PM (#3873029)
Hmm, GitHub has SSL certificate authentication. Could that be used for login?
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