Re: SSH in git-fetch

[Lo Peter <peterloleungyau@gmail.com>]

Dear Luis,

Thanks for the suggested workaround. I have tried it and can confirm
that it works. Thanks.

Regards,
Peter Lo

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 6:30 AM Luis Felipe
<luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 at 2:38 PM, Lo Peter <peterloleungyau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am experimenting with writing a package definition for an example R
> >
> > package (https://github.com/jennybc/foofactors) in a PRIVATE channel,
> >
> > where the R source is also at a PRIVATE github repository.
> >
> > While the private channel works with proper setup of SSH key (that
> >
> > needs to be in PEM format due to a bug in libssh2), I am having
> >
> > trouble with the private git repository for package source.
> >
> > Is it that git-fetch does not support fetching over SSH?
>
> For what it's worth, I have a private channel that defines packages of my private projects in GitLab. I haven't used the channel for a while, but SSH authentication worked by using "git-checkout" records instead of "origin" records in package "source" fields. For instance:
>
> (source
>  (git-checkout
>   (url "git@gitlab.com:luis-felipe/guile-lab.git")
>   (commit (string-append "v" version))))
>
>