Git requests token instead of password

Question

for every operation I do in my git, I need to insert my username + security token that came when I enabled the 2fa.

I dont want to copy the key everytime for every operation I do, it is very time consuming, I want to insert something I remember like my password.

How can I arrange that?

Thanks

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '18 at 08:13

You can use these commands to cache the token.

Set git to use the credential memory cache:
git config --global credential.helper cache

Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds):
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'

Then you only have to fill out the token once every hour.

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