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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-01-16 05:48:46 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-01-16 05:48:46 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access'
Doc update. * vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access: git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
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@@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpServerPort = 587
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-If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
+If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
+If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
+you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
+https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
+
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands: