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+#Personal Access Tokens
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+Personal Access Tokens are used for HTTPS authentication & linking to other projects for continuous integration type work 
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+To create, select your profile (top right), Your Settings, then Applications (on the left list)
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+It should come up with Manage Personal Access Tokens
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+you can Generate New Token (it will ask for a Unique name for that Token) and the token (it looks like a list of random characters) will appear near the top - you must copy this to a text file & save as it will disappear after you leave the page
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+This token can then be used instead of a password for https authentication 
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+#Adding a PAT to the git config for a project
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+The git config is inside the project in a hidden directory called .git  - you can either edit the file called config in that directory directly or use something like GitHub Desktop to change the remote setting
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+In GitHub Desktop with the repo you want to change selected, select Repository from the menu, then select Repository Settings... at the bottom. It will bring up a window with Remote, Ignored Files, & Git Config on the left - select Remote
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+under Primary remote repository (origin) the url will be displayed
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+the format for https is
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+https://<username>:<password>@<hostname>/<project-or-group>/<repository-name>.git
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+So without any username/password for the FGUK/FGUK-Test repo we get:
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+https://fguk.doghouselabs.dev/FGUK/FGUK-Test.git
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+To use the Personal Access Token we edit the line to something like this: (using the random string of characters that we copied to a text file earlier for personal-access-token)
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+https://your-username:personal-access-token@fguk.doghouselabs.dev/FGUK/FGUK-Test.git
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+You should then be able to access (push/pull) using https
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