node-gh/gh — pull request #271 by henvic (2014-03-19 20:42:27+00:00)
Title: User can't login with user / password more than once (e.g., on 2+ machines)

On https://github.com/settings/applications there is a list of application tokens.

The list is divided in two: personal access tokens, authorized applications, and GitHub applications.

Currently node-gh is shown on the personal access tokens list.

It appears GitHub now is using the 'note' field (used for application description) as a unique identifier for some unknown reason.

I've contacted their support and am waiting for a answer.

See https://github.com/defunkt/gist/commit/a65f64efae6da00fcfa5916f9a5bcac8fee9de7a and https://github.com/defunkt/gist/issues/166 for a workaround related to this.

I think there are two options if GitHub doesn't fix the issue fast (or decide it's a feature):
1) adopt such strategy (which I'm not a fan of) *
2) verify if we can get node-gh listed as a application and get a client id on https://github.com/settings/applications/new to avoid this by reusing the token (it seems to be avoidable doing so), but https://github.com/mikedeboer/node-github/ doesn't have support to this as of this time