From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:03:23 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] About Git through SSH In-Reply-To: <201009030937.31967.minimod@morethan.org> References: <1283422191-30926-1-git-send-email-maxime.petazzoni@bulix.org> <201009030730.57559.minimod@morethan.org> <20100903150459.059d682a@surf> <201009030937.31967.minimod@morethan.org> Message-ID: <20100903170323.3b5a8e6f@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:37:29 -0500 "Michael S. Zick" 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com