[Buildroot] About Git through SSH

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:37:29 -0500
"Michael S. Zick" <minimod at morethan.org> wrote:

> I support users back to the oldest, commonly used, git versions -
> Where I define that as the version in the current Debian stable
> release.
> 
> So the commentary in the gitolite release still applies to older git
> versions. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/git-core
> 
> Somewhere between v1.5 and v1.7 they must have added parsing "ssh://"
> to the git client.
> 
> You might want to add a comment in the "Minimum Software
> Requirements" of Buildroot, to go along with the addition of the user
> specified scheme feature for the case of "git xxx ssh://..."
> style URIs
> 
> Might cut down on the end-user puzzlement of: "Why doesn't this work
> for me?"
> 
> Note: I think the change happened at v1.6 but I haven't checked to be
> certain.

In Buildroot, I think only publicly-available Git trees will be used as
the source URL for packages, and such trees usually use the git:// or
http:// schemes rather than ssh://, which is usually used for a
private, read-write access to a repo.

Regards,

Thomas
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