FR: Allow using Github Tokens from gitconfig files

[pataquets]

git config retrieves configuration values from its default config files (see man git-config) using section.key syntax and previously set also with git config.
Examples:
https://github.com/mhayashi1120/yagist.el/blob/master/README.md#config
https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/+source-control/github/README.html#git-configuration

Git takes care of choosing/finding the proper file according to OS/user/system global,etc.
It would be great to allow bin to read the token from a bin.github-token section key.

Also, Git credential helpers might come handy (although I've not used it, so far).

[marcosnils]

TIL that adding PAT's in the gitconfig is such a thing. Is there any other source I can ready about this a bit more? I find ir surprising that neither the github docs or the gh CLI mention anything about storing the token this way. In fact, the gh CLI suggests using the GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_TOKEN variables here: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_help_environment

[pataquets]

Aside from the mentioned Emacs packages (which use git config --global shell calls), I've looked at my own gitconfig and found sections:
[tig]: https://jonas.github.io/tig/doc/tigrc.5.html
[github]: I guess it belongs to gh Github CLI
[gitlab]: Ditto for glab (I can't remember for sure, not checked myself, just guessing)
[delta]: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output

Also, libgit's C API features gitconfig functions, so I guess it's a pretty widespread practice. It's also very convenient, since you can centralize all your global Git tooling config in a single file and also repo-local configs. You can also do some fancy conditional including (e.g. depending on your current dir).

HTH.