Subsurface ans Dropbox

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Even given that libgit2 uses libssh2 it should still be possible to craft
> a way to communicate with a server and keep a repository synced with that
> server...

I actually spent some time trying to figure it all out, and literally gave up.

My .ssh/config file has things like

    host dives
        HostName git.subsurface-divelog.org
        Port 2222
        User git
        IdentityFile ,,,

to specify the port-name and user name etc. Even *that* kind of
trivial thing seems to be a major pain with libgit2. But the
"IdentifyFile" thing is just too painful for words.

Hardcoding it to just work with github.com and user "git", and
hard-coding a path to an identity-file (and require that it has no
password) might be somewhat reasonable. There is rudimentary support
for things like identityfiles per se in libgit2, it's just that there
is no integration with normal ssh configurability.

That said, even then I don't really know how to specify how to try to
connect and give up quickly if not connected (or if just really slow
connection). That doesn't seem to be a libgit2 usage model.

                      Linus