@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ Hub will prompt for GitHub username & password the first time it needs to access
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To avoid being prompted, use \fIGITHUB_USER\fR and \fIGITHUB_PASSWORD\fR environment variables\.
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Alternatively, you may provide \fIGITHUB_TOKEN\fR, an access token with \fIrepo\fR permissions\. This will not be written to \fB~/\.config/hub\fR\.
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.SS "HTTPS instead of git protocol"
If you prefer the HTTPS protocol for GitHub repositories, you can set "hub\.protocol" to "https"\. This will affect \fBclone\fR, \fBfork\fR, \fBremote add\fR and other operations that expand references to GitHub repositories as full URLs that otherwise use git and ssh protocols\.