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Docs feedback: incorrect info on how to authenticate with a group access token

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/settings/group_access_tokens.html says

After you configure a group access token, you don’t need a password when you authenticate. Instead, you can enter any non-blank value.

Based on trial-and-error with Git over HTTPS, it's actually the other way around: You have to give the group access token as the password. The username can be an arbitrary value.

I suggest replacing the quoted text above with

To authenticate with a group access token: Enter any non-blank value as the username. Enter the group access token as the password.

(Aside: I tried to create a merge request of the change I'm suggesting, via the 'Edit this page' link at the bottom of the page. But when I clicked on 'Commit changes', it failed with the message 'A file with this name doesn't exist'.)