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GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

• Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:

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#I usually drop something like this into my virtualenv's postactivate for some 
#quick and handy shortcuts to common Django commands.
#This way dropping in to do some work on any arbitrary project is as easy as:
# 1. workon <project name>
# 2. djr

cd /path/to/site/root

#Django command shortcuts
alias dj='python manage.py'