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bug#38320: Cuirass: Allow to use authenticated Git repositories as input
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#38320: Cuirass: Allow to use authenticated Git repositories as inputs |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:05:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Mathieu,
Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> 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’.