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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git_annex_init_failed_due_to_unsupported_ssh_option/comment_2_32e142afd9fe65843d53883ba2ae48cb._comment b/doc/bugs/git_annex_init_failed_due_to_unsupported_ssh_option/comment_2_32e142afd9fe65843d53883ba2ae48cb._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..42550d51f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/git_annex_init_failed_due_to_unsupported_ssh_option/comment_2_32e142afd9fe65843d53883ba2ae48cb._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="scottgorlin@a32946b2aad278883c1690a0753241583a9855b9" + nickname="scottgorlin" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/2dd1fc8add62bbf4ffefac081b322563" + subject="IgnoreUnknown Include considered harmful?" + date="2016-11-23T20:07:45Z" + content=""" +As noted, include appears to not work on a mac at the moment. This means git-annex silently ignores the included configs, which may be required to ssh to the remotes of interest. This is happening to me. + +My understanding is that ssh aliases are the recommended way of juggling multiple private keys amongst multiple hosts, so it is a required part of many git workflows. In this particular case, I have set up git annex on a NAS which does not allow multiple ssh users (QNAP) and the authentication is done only via key identity, not username. Thus, host aliases are necessary. + +If one config can't include another, I would prefer an early failure indicating a problem with the config file, or better, a solution where git-annex doesn't require a config. In this scenario, git fetch remote_name and git annex copy --to remotename do not resolve to the same alias definitions (the latter is missing because of the ignored config!). + +I got my setup to work only by finding and manually editing <repo>/.git/annex/ssh_config, which to my knowledge is undocumented (ie when is it written? do any commands change it?); manual mucking around inside .git to me is not a good practice, and for now I have two different alias's defined (in repo and in ~/.ssh/config) + + +"""]] |