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git-credential-fill.md

Try entering the following in Git Bash:

$ git credential fill
protocol=https
host=github.com

(note the blank line)

this should return...

protocol=https
host=github.com
path=
username=<your-user>
password=<authentication-token>

You should be able to use <authentication-token> to create Gists.

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