git-token

Manage git tokens with password encrypted files.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/kaarmu/git-token
cd git-token
make install

Note: ~/.local/bin needs to be in PATH.

Usage

Saving a token

git-token will encrypt and store your token. When calling this command,

git token adam xxyyzz

you will be prompted a few questions. These include, which domain are you belonging (e.g. an enterprise GitHub solution? Default is just github.com), what is your username there, which password do you want to encrypt the token with.

Loading a token

The program will try to decrypt the token with the supplied password, print it, and call git-credential to temporarily cache the login credentials. The latter part will make it easier to interact with git since then the entire git suite will have access to the cached credentials for a limited time.

The following is an example of a user retreiving a token with git-token.

$ git-token adam
Password:
Found token "xxyyzz" and cached it for a limited time.

Enabling git credentials

To use git-credential-cache, an important part of git-token, you only need to call git-token the -e option once and git-token will enable git-credential-cache for you.

Fixing author

If you have made a commit under the wrong authorship git-token will help you easily solve that with one command. Call git-token with the --recommit option and git-token will re-commit the last commit (with the same message) using you as the author.

git token --recommit adam

Dependencies:

• git, of course
• gnupg, for encryption
• make, for installation
• scdoc, for generating man pages
• gzip, for compressing man pages