GitHub new token system

Question

Recently i received an email from GitHub saying that I have used my user and password to push data for a remote repository

And this will be deprecated soon. I already get the access token for my GitHub account, but where do i store it? I'll need to type it every time that I use git push ?

Btw, i have the ~/.gitconfig file, but it's not working (every time that i push data for a remote repository i need to insert my credentials again)

Answer 1

You need to:

• create a PAT (Personal Access Token)
• use that PAT as your password (instead of your current GitHub account password)
• setup a Git credential helper ( git config credential.helper ) in order to cache those credentials (GitHub username + token), and to not have to enter them on every Git remote operation.