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Yes, it looks like it was me who was confused. I did not know that github does not accept anymore the password when using git, and you're right that this is unnecessary. Sorry that I was rude, me implying that you were confused really wasn't a friendly thing.
If you use git often, and this is in the way for you, I think it's possible to save it in the gitconfig, tough, if that's fine. I think git should be able to use the credential manager of mac's too if you use that, but maybe it needs a separate package installed for that to work.
Hey it's all good. In seriousness I am glad we came to a point of understanding now.
And yeah, my API token I generated for the command line, I keep stored in my OSX keychain. It's all set at this point. I'm just irritated that I had to go through all that bollocks in the first place, and for no increase in security but actually a slight reduction, since my github password is not in the OSX keychain, but in a much-more-secure password manager and in my memory. And, that from time to time the whole issue rears its head again like it did yesterday.
Actually, holy shit - you just made me realize, as I was thinking on that "slight reduction in security" statement, that the pass"phrase" for my OSX keychain is one that I reused in other places on the internet, not one that I treat as "holy shit needs to be super-secure" like for my other password manager. Brb I am changing that right now.