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Document how to pass the necessary credentials to allow push to remote GIT repository

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No documentation file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. First locate the documentation covering configuration and pushing to a remote Git repository, then clarify how credentials are passed and what the supported strategy is; done when a user can follow the documentation without guessing how to configure credentials.

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Description

enhancement

Currently it is not clear how we should pass credentials (or what is the strategy) to configure push to remote git repository, could you please update documentation to clarify that point?

Dominant language
Java
Stars
49
Forks
2
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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