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2.2 Token Creation

Forge uses the Ghub package to access the APIs of supported Git forges. How this works and how to create and store a token is documented in (ghub)Getting Started.

Forge requires the following token scopes.

• For Github these scopes are required.
  • repo grants full read/write access to private and public repositories.
  • user grants access to profile information.
  • read:org grants read-only access to organization membership.

  More information about these and other scopes can be found at https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/scopes-for-oauth-apps.

• For Gitlab instances api is the only required scope. It gives read and write access to everything. The Gitlab API provides more fine-grained scopes for read-only access, but when any write access at all is required, then it is all or nothing.