![]() You also have the option to set an expiration date for your PAT, including selecting from pre-filled options or creating a custom expiration date. You could then delete that PAT at the end of the day when you are done using it so no one else can potentially access your GitHub credentials. On the other hand, if you were planning on working on a shared computer for the day (such as a machine at Epicodus), you might generate a different one called shared machine. ![]() You could also name one something like personal computer to denote that it's only being used on your personal machine and doesn't need to be deleted. In the photo above, we put Epicodus in as a note. You will likely only want to Revoke all personal access tokens (which will delete all PATs) if you're worried others may have gained access to one or more of your PATs.Ĭlick on Generate new token and we'll see a new page with a form and many options to select from:įirst, add a Note to describe what the token is for. The button on the left is Generate new token while the button on the right is Revoke all. Take note of the two buttons in the upper right corner of the screen. We'll always use classic PAT tokens, though you are welcome to experiment with fine-grained tokens on your own. When you need to create or delete a personal access token, this is where you'll do it. From this submenu, select "Tokens (classic)", which will take you to a new page with some options that looks like this: You'll be directed to a new page and a new left-hand menu will come up that looks like this:Ĭlick on Personal access tokens to expand a submenu with two options: "Fine-grained tokens" and "Tokens (classic)". This will likely be at the bottom of the menu. In the left-hand menu of your GitHub settings, click on Developer Settings. Your email is already verified and you are ready to create a PAT. If your email is verified, you won't see a bullet point specifying this. For more information on verifying email, see Verifying Your Email Address. Click on that link, check your personal email, and then click on the link in your email to verify. If your email is not verified, there will be a bullet point beneath the email that says Unverified with a link to Resend verification email. To check, click on the icon in the upper right corner of GitHub (the icon is your avatar and has a little downward facing arrow to its right, click on Settings from the dropdown menu, and then click on Email in the left-hand menu of the page you are directed to. You may have already done this when you set up your account. ![]() To generate a PAT in GitHub, the email you're using for GitHub needs to be verified. If you are reviewing this lesson before starting at Epicodus, you should follow the steps below to learn how to use a PAT, but you won't be expected to actually use it until your first day of Epicodus when you do the following lesson: Practice: GitHub Remote Repositories. You will be using PATs every day while you are a student at Epicodus, so it's really important that you know how to do it. Let's go through the steps to generate and use a PAT. With a password, we might update it from time to time (hopefully), but we don't delete and replace it. This is different from how we generally use a password. Another key difference is that it's easy to delete and create new PATs in GitHub if you need to. The difference is that GitHub will generate it for you. To access repositories in GitHub via the command line, we need to use a personal access token, which is also called a PAT for short. For example, when you log in to your email with a username and password, your email provider will authenticate your credentials before giving you access. We use authentication all the time when we are working on computers. However, in order to push and pull code, GitHub needs to verify that we should have access to the repositories. When we make changes to code on our local machines, we can push the updated code to a repository. When we need to grab code from a repository, we can pull it to our local machines using the command line. That means in your future career, you'll likely be focused on just a handful of repositories that are used regularly. Enterprise companies generally have repositories that are used for long-term projects. Generally, we will be working with new repositories every class session, but sometimes we'll use the same repository for longer projects. A repository is just a place where a codebase is stored. While you are a student at Epicodus, you will be using the terminal to push and pull code from GitHub repositories.
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