Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>>> I think there are small modifications to do to (guix git) and (git
>>> clone).
>>
>> I did integrate a part of libgit2 ssh authentification mechanism in
>> Guile-Git in 2017. You can find it in (git fetch) module.
>>
>> It is currently broken, because of a regression. See
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-11/msg00415.html.
>
> Oh I missed that message of yours.  Do you have a complete example using
> that functionality that I could use as a test?
>
> It would be great to have a test for that in Guile-Git.  We could use
> Guile-SSH, when it’s available, to spawn an SSH server.
>
>> What would be missing to have support for authenticated Git repositories
>> as Cuirass inputs is:
>>
>> * Fix the regression mentionned above.
>>
>> * Add support for a fetch-options argument in clone method of (git clone).
>>
>> * In (guix git), "latest-repository-commit" method would take parameters
>> to setup ssh authentication (such as ssh private key path at least) and
>> pass them to "fetch" and "clone" methods of Guile-Git.
>>
>> * Finally in Cuirass, the ssh authentication parameters could be
>> specified in the specification file (maybe for each input?) and passed
>> to "latest-repository-commit" method accordingly.
>
> I’d like to see that happen!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.