@MarkEWaite , @justinharringa:matrix.org , @rishabhBudhouliya , I dont know why I didn't gave attention to this before even though I knew that it was coming. The Github support for password authentication has been completely discontinued, although I am using gitlab vcs now to demo my project work.
As developer I am curious to know that does Jenkins credentials Plugin support access Token, from what I have investigated it dose not, I have seen workarounds of using Username/Password credential as access token.
I think the Username and Password binding should include support for access tokens since password based auth are not that secure and seems to be deprecated in the coming future.
Would you be willing to update the pull request to use the newer library?
Currently we are depending upon sshd transitive dependency, so are you suggesting on using the sshj library instead of sshd?
git maintenance
is supposed to optimise existing git repo and speed up git operations. Do we have any data to validate the decrease in operation time and how this would be beneficial for the git plugin and its users? If not, would we include a benchmarking experiment as an expectation in the gsoc proposal for this idea?