The Joys of Git
Working on PsyDuk has become a little frustrating since I’ve never used any source control before. I did try to use TortoiseSVN, but that ended up being a miserable failure. The manual approach, however, was getting a little bit out of hand:
Even with only 5 versions, it was still quite messy.
I had heard of GitHub before, and after asking in the Hak5 IRC Channel, I figured I would give it a try, however I ran into a small hiccup.
When signing up, it asked for an SSH public key. Problem is, I already have a SSH keypair for connecting to the servers at my University. Some quick googling showed that ~/.ssh/config could solve my problems, so I generated a key pair, moved the keys around, and set up ~/.ssh/config as follows:
Host <uni server non-FQDN> HostName <uni server FQDN> IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/<uni server FQDN>/id_rsa PasswordAuthentication no Port 22 User <username> Host github HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keys/github.com/id_rsa Port 22 User git TCPKeepAlive yes IdentitiesOnly yes
However, a small yet strange problem stopped me later. Going through the instructions to set up a repository, I simply has to run “git push origin master”, and everything would supposedly get uploaded to GitHub. In practice, it gave me a SSH key error.
Some more googling showed that if I could SSH as git@githib.com, “git push origin master” should work. Yet wierdly, I could SSH in normally, but git still threw a tantrum.
After some 20 minutes of messing with it, I tried changing “Host github” in ~/.ssh/config to “Host github.com”. It worked.
I hate it how the smallest bugs can cause the wierdest issues. Often (in my experience) when a strange and complex bug pops up, it’s a small thing that caused it.
Oh well. At least I managed to get PsyDuk up on GitHub, and learned how to set up multiple SSH keypairs. That’ll come in useful.
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