Using pass to store a GitHub access token

If you want to connect to GitHub using HTTPS, you need an access token. You can store that token in pass and use the following snippet to make git ask pass for the token. I put the snippet into .config/git/user and include that file in my main .gitconfig. This example uses pass, but you can replace the call with anything you like.

# It is necessary to quote the command and escape any double quotes it contains
# (the example at [1] does not do that).
#
# [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/api-credentials#_credential_helpers
[credential "https://github.com"]
  username = …
  helper = !"f() { echo \"password=`pass access-tokens/github.com`\"; }; f"