On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I just released an update of my experimental branch.
> 
> I have X11 installed and when I push to one of my remote repositories I ghet 
> this ugly (but meaningless) warning with the commit dialog notification:
> 
>  Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
> 
>  Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> 
>  To [email protected]:concord-consortium/sensor-native.git
>     9b53435..ef0be15  master -> master
> 
> Here's a description of how I fixed the same problem in the textmate git 
> bundle:
> 
> http://github.com/jcf/git-tmbundle/issues/issue/8/#comment_382550
> 
> And the commit: 
> http://github.com/stepheneb/git-tmbundle/commit/da311baf3125df757668a7bbbe540a3e2752587f
> 
> The warnings go away by prefixing: 'unset DISPLAY &&' before any git command 
> using a secure connection.


I think we may need DISPLAY for SSH_ASKPASS to work properly. It causes GitX to 
ask for a password for ssh connections if there isn't one set already.

I'll have to look into this further.


--Nathan

http://brotherbard.com/





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