[Goodies-dev] SVN gone, git access?

[Stefan Ott]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:05, Stefan Ott <stefan at ott.net> wrote:

>>> 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 :)

hey, err, I signed up almost 2 months ago but I never got a reply and
still cannot seem to access the repository...

cheers
-- 
Stefan Ott
http://www.ott.net/

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