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Comment by andrewchilds | Hacker News Reader

From the README:

    $ git reflow setup
    Please enter your GitHub username: nhance
    Please enter your GitHub password (we do NOT store this):

    Your GitHub account was successfully setup!

That implies that the username is actually stored somewhere. Is it stored locally or on some reenhanced.com server? The README should be very clear about what exactly gitreflow stores and where.

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From the README: "On your first install, you'll need to setup your Github credentials. These are used only to get an oauth token that's stored in your global git config. We use the Github credentials so we can create pull requests from the command line."

It probably uses the password to create a token. The token is then stored on your computer. This allows the app to get access to github but also makes it easy for you to revoke the token. See https://github.com/settings/tokens

Perhaps they only use the password to retrieve an OAuth access token which they store? At least that's how the `hub` command line tool handles it afaik.

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