Creating a Github Personal Access Token

What?

Github doesn’t want you using your username/password to interact with your code from command line. So to push code to your Github repo you’ll need to create a “Personal Access Token”. These are randomly generated strings that you use as your password when prompted for a password when pushing code via commandline. They should be set with as few a permissions as possible and should have an expiration date.

How?

Go to Settings/Developer settings
Click Personal access tokens/Fine-grained tokens
Click Generate new token
Give it a name, an expiration date(DO IT! Security is good), and put a descritpion that actually matters.
Only give it access to the only repositories it needs
Click into Repository permissions to set the permissions that the token will have
- Set Contents to Reac and write. This allows you to do commits, push code, download, merge. Some basics.
In Overview 2 permissions will be selected. The Contents and Metadata. Metadata is selected because this is the basic information about the repo such as the name of it.
Click Generate token
Copy this token somewhere secure. Bitwarden or something. There are git credential managers but I’ve never used one yet. Example: git-credential-manager

You can now use this token until it expires to work with your repo from command line.

Next?

Go push some code to Github.