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Documentation: add instructions to help setup gmail 2FA 

For those who use two-factor authentication with gmail, git-send-email
will not work unless it is setup with an app-specific password. The
example for setting up git-send-email for use with gmail will now
include information on generating and storing the app-specific password.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Michael Rappazzo 2016-05-27 16:39:57 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -450,6 +450,19 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
smtpServerPort = 587

If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail acocunt, you will
need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an
app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials
helper:

$ git credential fill
protocol=smtp
host=smtp.gmail.com
username=youname@gmail.com
password=app-password


Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands: