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Some of the Skara tools requires a personal access token (PAT) to authenticate against an external Git source code hosting provider's API. A personal access token is a like a password that has limited capabilities, it can only be used to successfully authenticate and perform certain limited actions. The following Skara tools requires a personal access token:

• git-fork
• git-pr
• git-token

If Note: if you do not intend to use the above tools, then there is no need to set up a PAT personal access token and you can skip this section. All the other tools described in the beginning of this document works fine without a personal access token. If you want do wish to make use of the above three tools, then please read on. To set up and store a person access token, please see the instructions in one of the following sections depending on your operating system and environment

Configuring a personal access token consists of two steps:

1. Set up a credential manager for securely storing the personal access token locally on your computer
2. Generate the personal access token and store it in the credential manager

The way to carry out the above two steps differs depending on the operating system you use, please follow the instructions below for your operating system.

Windows

Credential Manager

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