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You can use GnuPG (GPG) to store the your personal access token encrypted in an encrypted a file. You will first have to store your GitHub username in the Git configuration file by running the following command (replace <USERNAME> with your GitHub username):

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Finally you must configure Git to decrypt and read the personal access from the file ~/pat.gpg when credentials are needed for https://github.com. This is done by the following command:

$ git config --global 'credential.https://github.com.helper' '!f() { test $1 = get && echo password=`gpg --decrypt ~/pat.gpg`; }; f'

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You can use age to store your personal access token encrypted in a file. You will first have to store your GitHub username in the Git configuration file by running the following command (replace <USERNAME> with your GitHub username):

$ git config --global 'credential.https://github.com.username' <USERNAME>

The next step is to generate a personal access token. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens and and click on "Generate new token". You only need to select the "repo" scope (permission). After you have generated your token, use age to encrypt it and store it in a you PAT in an encrypted file. To encrypt the file personal access token using a passphrase and storing the result in a file, run the following command (replacing <PAT> with your personal access token):

$ echo '<PAT>' | age --passphrase > ~/pat.age 

When using applicable Skara CLI tools set the GIT_TOKEN environment variable to the decrypted value, for exampleFinally you must configure Git to decrypt and read the personal access from the file ~/pat.age when credentials are needed for https://github.com. This is done by the following command:

$ GIT_TOKEN=$(age git config --global 'credential.https://github.com.helper' '!f() { test $1 = get && echo password=`age --decrypt ~/pat.age) git pr listage`; }; f'

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