[Goodies-dev] SVN gone, git access?

Stefan Ott stefan at ott.net
Thu Aug 12 06:05:02 CEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:00, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

okay, thanks. still not entirely thrilled about the idea of handing
out my phone number, but i guess i don't have much of a choice here :)

cheers
--
Stefan Ott
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