[Goodies-dev] SVN gone, git access?

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Thu Aug 12 06:00:18 CEST 2010


On 08/11/10 18:15, Stefan Ott wrote:
> Hey there
>
> (excuse the probably slightly inappropriate tone of this message, not
> a native English speaker) :)
>
> Anyway. I just tried to svn update my plugin's repo and had to see
> that that no longer worked. I then found
> http://wiki.xfce.org/dev/howto/git and apparently I need yet another
> new account, this time including my home address, phone numbers etc. -
> is that really the case?
>
> Also, on a side note, it seems I have to provide a DSA SSH key - mine
> are all RSA though. With all these little annoyances, I wonder whether
> I'm the only one who considers moving his plugin's repo away from
> foo-projects or if there's some more reasonable way of getting access
> to the git repo.
>
> Again, this isn't supposed to be a rant - I'm just wondering.

we currently have 36 developers that use git. So, there doesn't seem to 
be a problem.

you can easily have both a rsa and a dsa key, you can have as many keys 
as you want. that's even adviseable. just make a new dsa key.

Cheers,

Auke



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