gh auth login: added flags to partially automate flow#5158
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Hi, thanks for maintaining a tool that wraps gh! For clarification: |
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Thank you! I've pushed some tweaks to simplify.
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Motivation: I maintain a tool that implements a specific workflow using git and gh. A few of my users were
confused by the various options presented by the "gh auth login" flow, so I would like to add these command
line flags that can be optionally used to reduce the number of prompts the user is shown.
For example, if I know that I want all my users to not use GitHub Enterprise, and to use SSH to authenticate to
git, then my wrapper tool would run:
Then the users are only prompted for the remaining necessary items.
I also modified the flow so that if web-based authentication fails (ie if the user is trapped in text mode),
gh auth loginautomatically falls over to prompting the user to paste a token. This step, too, will reduce the number of support calls I have to respond to by one.Tested by recompiling and manually retesting the gh tool.