From bdb9ae9c465e48f92fdd5605cab5bbd89f9be014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Chargin <wchargin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:59:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Demonstrate the GitHub token env var in the README (#556)
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Summary:
Using the environment variable is the preferred way to interact with the
CLI, simply because it’s easier for users. We should demonstrate this
interface instead of the legacy flag-only version.

Paired with @decentralion.

wchargin-branch: readme-env-var
---
 README.md | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0edd3b6..85bb61f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ git clone https://github.com/sourcecred/sourcecred.git
 cd sourcecred
 yarn install
 yarn backend
-node bin/sourcecred.js load REPO_OWNER REPO_NAME --github-token=GH_TOKEN
+export SOURCECRED_GITHUB_TOKEN=YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN
+node bin/sourcecred.js load REPO_OWNER REPO_NAME
 # this loads sourcecred data for a particular repository
 yarn start
 # then navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser
@@ -111,9 +112,12 @@ yarn start
 
 For example, if you wanted to look at cred for [ipfs/js-ipfs], you could run:
 ```
-$ node bin/sourcecred.js load ipfs js-ipfs --github-token=YOUR_GH_TOKEN
+$ export SOURCECRED_GITHUB_TOKEN=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+$ node bin/sourcecred.js load ipfs js-ipfs
 ```
 
+replacing the big string of zeros with your actual token.
+
 [ipfs/js-ipfs]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
 
 ### Contributing