[Sugar-devel] git problems (reprise)

[Art Hunkins]

James,

Thanks for your attention to my added comments.

I'm sure your observation is correct.

No, I was not referring to a passphrase of the SSH key. I've never used a 
passphrase; it's one of those items that, as a beginner, I've always thought 
of as an unnecessary complication. (And I've the impression that the current 
discussion tends to validate this thought.)

My comment about the necessity of logging in was prompted by my frustration 
at being "hung up (on) unexpectedly" most times when I tried to do something 
with git - I presume, now, mostly when *pushing* to gitorious. And this 
turned out to be because I had neglected to log in. Maybe I'm touchy, but 
one of the more frustrating things in life is to be "hung up on" - 
particularly with no explanation (or an impenetrable one).

Perhaps the message needs to be changed to the necessity of logging in when 
*pushing* to gitorious (and the message relocated). Please feel free to 
change this yourself, or to tell me precisely what needs to change and I'll 
happily do it.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cameron" <quozl at laptop.org>
To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
Cc: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>; 
<Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] git problems (reprise)


> Art, you added a comment that logging in to gitorious was required for
> *every* step in the tutorial.  That's not how it worked for me.
>
> Is it possible that you are referring to a passphrase of the SSH key?
>
> If so, you can delete the passphrase of the SSH key and you won't be
> prompted.  You can delete the passphrase by changing it to an empty
> passphrase.
>
> The command to change the passphrase of an SSH key is
>
> ssh-keygen -p -f ${FILE}
>
> For example:
>
> $ ssh-keygen -p -f .ssh/id_dsa
> Enter old passphrase:
> Enter new passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
> Enter same passphrase again:
> Your identification has been saved with the new passphrase.
>
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/