On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 May 2017, at 03:42, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> btw, I'm curious why the pub key is required? Isn't it only needed at the >>> other (github) end? > > no idea :) > I just know that libgit2 requires it
I had a hunt. The only hint I could find is... "for SSH authentication, the ssh user is [always?] 'git'. The [public?] key is what's used for figuring out what the GitHub username is." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21122479/connect-to-private-github-repository-with-libgit2 Would that make sense? My annotations in square brackets. cheers -ben
