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diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md index a0b6225345..6ee65f40be 100644 --- a/contrib/devtools/README.md +++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md @@ -119,7 +119,25 @@ Configuring the github-merge tool for the bitcoin repository is done in the foll git config githubmerge.repository bitcoin/bitcoin git config githubmerge.testcmd "make -j4 check" (adapt to whatever you want to use for testing) - git config --global user.signingkey mykeyid (if you want to GPG sign) + git config --global user.signingkey mykeyid + +Authentication (optional) +-------------------------- + +The API request limit for unauthenticated requests is quite low, but the +limit for authenticated requests is much higher. If you start running +into rate limiting errors it can be useful to set an authentication token +so that the script can authenticate requests. + +- First, go to [Personal access tokens](https://github.com/settings/tokens). +- Click 'Generate new token'. +- Fill in an arbitrary token description. No further privileges are needed. +- Click the `Generate token` button at the bottom of the form. +- Copy the generated token (should be a hexadecimal string) + +Then do: + + git config --global user.ghtoken "pasted token" Create and verify timestamps of merge commits --------------------------------------------- |