From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: thestar@fussycoder.id.au
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Google Summer of Code 2009 - new ideas
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:18:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903090218.27132.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090309115026.obsvt34miowwcw8w@webmail.fussycoder.id.au>
Please do not trim CC list; at least do not remove git mailing list
from addressees.
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, thestar@fussycoder.id.au wrote:
> Quoting Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>
> <snip>
> > I was thinking more about caching credentials by git rather than forcing
> > to use single connection. Additionally you are solving the problem for
> > the HTTP(S) transport; admittedly for SSH there is much better solution
> > of using public/private keys, instead of asking for password.
>
> What about public/private keys that also have a password? Isn't that
> the most recommended way to use ssh?
You use ssh-agent for that (via "ssh-add <private key>"), perhaps with
wrapper around it for example keychain. The "caching" is done by SSH,
no need to duplicate this in git.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-07 0:44 [GSoC] Google Summer of Code 2009 - new ideas Jakub Narebski
2009-03-07 1:09 ` Jan Janak
2009-03-07 2:56 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-03-08 23:59 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <20090309115026.obsvt34miowwcw8w@webmail.fussycoder.id.au>
2009-03-09 1:18 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-03-07 19:59 ` P Baker
2009-03-07 20:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-10 0:49 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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