Knowledge Base (Posts about github)

My github credential for git

bgstack15 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:38:00 GMT

A few years ago, Github decided passwords were not good enough, and made me use a static password that must be stored somewhere on the filesystem. How is that better than a password I type every ~hour?

So here's how I automated it so I never have to cat token-github for pasting into the auth form when pushing to the cruddy old github. I push changes there only for projects that already exist there; I don't use github for my own projects.

You set up ~/.gitconfig like so.

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://github.com/**"]
   path = ~/.gitconfig-github

And then ~/.gitconfig-github like the following.

# References:
#    man git-config
#    https://medium.com/@jogarcia/different-git-configurations-for-different-remote-repositories-276759c4f14c
[core]
   askPass = /home/bgstack15/.gitconfig-github.sh
[credential]
   username = bgstack15

And then finally ~/.gitconfig-github.sh.

	`#!/bin/sh`
	`cat /path/to/token-github`

I didn't want to deal with how git might parse spaces in askPass=, so it was logical to use a shell script.

And now Github gets what it wants (a password stored somewhere on the filesystem), and I get what I want (auth without copy-pasting).

References

Different git configurations for different remote repositories | by Jose Garcia | Medium

Chicago95 icon set for LibreOffice now upstreamed

bgstack15 — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:25:41 GMT

The upstream folks at Chicago95 total conversion mod for Xfce desktop environment on GNU/Linux have graciously upstreamed my Chicago95 icon theme for LibreOffice! Check it out in the official repository: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/tree/master/Extras/libreoffice- chicago95-iconset. Now if only we could get them to make a new release, so I could go update the dpkgs in the apt repo in the Open Build Service...

#movingtogitlab

bgstack15 — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:45:47 GMT

#movingtogitlab

I do not use social media, unless github, gitlab, or Wordpress.com count. But, here is my hashtag for the week: #movingtogitlab. With the disheartening news about a week ago of a malevolent force taking over the community darling github.com, I have decided to move my projects to gitlab. Plus, I was awakened to the fact that github's value-added bits are closed source. Well, what an interesting situation! And I was just getting a few stars on some of my repositories too. Check out the traffic of the gitlab github importer: https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer?orgId=1. I will be sharing over the next few posts some tools I used to facilitate this process. I had some help with the gist one, and I used a simple tool for the git repos. Someday I may even run my own instance of gitlab.