Feature request: Error message about the password

[MDJRosenau]

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I was using a different GIT server before using GitHub and tried to perform GIT actions ("git push") using my user name and my password. I got the following error message (using HTTPS):

• remote: Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not supported for Git operations.

Being new to GitHub, this message did not help my very much and it took me a lot of time to find out that I need to use an "access token" as password.

For this reason, I'd propose to change the error message if this is possible. The error message could be something like this:

• remote: Invalid username or token. Specify your GitHub user name as user name and an access token as password. Read the GitHub documentation for more information about access tokens.

... or even:

• remote: Invalid username or token. Specify your GitHub user name as user name and an access token as password. You'll find more information about access tokens under: https://github.com/docs/foo/bar.

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