Re: git push via VC failure

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:09:41 -0400 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 July 2018 at 08:52, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> I've gotten this on two different GNU/Linux systems, one does not have
>> ssh-askpass installed, the other does but it is in /usr/libexec/openssh;
>> so does VC really require ssh-askpass directly in /usr/libexec?  If so,
>> I guess I could symlink it there, but this seems suboptimal.  Again, in
>> both systems 'git push' from the shell succeeded, so git itself seems to
>> be configured correctly and ssh-askpass doesn't seem to be required.  Or
>> is there some other reason for the failure in VC?
>
> Are you using ssh-agent, and are SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK set
> in your shell but not in Emacs?

Ah, that must be it.  Thanks for calling it to my attention.

> I have written the ssh-agency package which tries to find the correct
> values for those environment variables automatically. Originally it
> was written for magit on w32 systems, but it turns out to be useful on
> GNU systems as well. And it should be usable for vc-git, it's just a a
> matter of arranging to have `ssh-agency-ensure' called before 'git
> push' is run.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll give it a try.

Steve Berman