[snowpatch] [PATCH] Replace ssh agent authentication with explicit key

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 02/12/16 11:00, Russell Currey wrote:
> I wouldn't mind having a commented out bogus passphrase in the example file

ACK.

> ssh-agent use is fundamentally broken in libgit2 and I don't want it to get used
> at all.  If we get ~/ support and have ~/.ssh/id_rsa{.pub} as defaults it'll
> catch the majority of cases.

Ooh, having ~/.ssh/id_rsa as a default could be useful... I'll look into it.

> This wouldn't be too much of a PITA to deal with since we set up the auth
> callbacks once we're isolated on a single project, so we could have base git
> settings then overwrite them.  I think in *most* cases snowpatch will be pushing
> to roughly the same place (i.e. GitHub or GitLab) so this won't be a big deal,
> you can work around this by running multiple snowpatch instances that test
> different projects.
>
> So yeah we should do this but I don't think it should block this patch going in.

OK.

> People talk about aliens looking at humanity and thinking we're super dumb
> because of ironic memes and electing Trump and all that, but the likeliness that
> other lifeforms are within the range of human intellect and not vastly superior
> or inferior is crazy low.  They're either going to read about the LHC and think
> we're morons, or look at a picture that calls a deer a "doggo with antlers" and
> think we're geniuses.

...ACK? I propose the ruscur equation as an extension of the Drake 
equation to encompass the probability distribution of "doggo with 
antlers" to "LHC"...

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited