[Nix-dev] fetchgit with ssh

[Sönke Hahn]

Aristid Breitkreuz wrote:

> A noteworthy workaround would be that you can just have a manual checkout
> of your private repos and then do
> 
> src = ./path/to/repo;

Thanks. Yes, that's what we're doing right now. (And it's not even that 
inconvenient, but I thought fetchgit could be better.)

> Am 13.01.2014 08:49 schrieb "Vladimír Čunát" <vcunat at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hi.
>>
>> On 01/13/2014 07:52 AM, Thomas Bereknyei wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not positive this is the problem, but take a look at another
>>> example. No quotes around the url and different format.
>>>
>>>    src = fetchgit {
>>>        url = git://git.gnupg.org/libgcrypt.git;
>>>        rev = "99b18aa53";
>>>        sha256 = "1rhbpxqrkfszlv8jvw8s4apwklal07k8zxv5q555l7binc1j1j3z";
>>>     };
>>>
>>
>> I'm quite certain the quotes wouldn't break this case. Here you have just
>> plain git protocol without SSH.
>>
>> The current implementation of fetchgit doesn't support SSH, judging from
>> a brief look at its code. (BTW, fetchgit runs in a separate derivation,
>> so it isn't affected by adding stuff to buildInputs, or even to $PATH.)
>>
>> Maybe it's easy to add the support, I'll look again at it this evening (I
>> hope), if noone else solves it beforehand. The main problem is the purity
>> of ~/.ssh -- this directory just shouldn't be considered, as the behavior
>> inherently impure. Adding key/password to parameters of fetchgit also
>> doesn't seem very comfortable.
>>
>>
>> Vlada
>>
>>
>>
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