Use "-p" for ssh access by default / doc

[mislav]

Use "-p" for ssh access by default / doc

[coderanger]

What might be nicer is detecting if the username matches your own and making -p the default then.

[defunkt]

Is there any reason you do not want "-p" to be the default, with e.g. hub clone?

Are you mostly cloning your own projects? I find myself mostly cloning open source projects.

What if you could set an environment variable saying you want -p by default?

Also, "-p" is not documented anywhere, except for the examples and in the source itself, as far as I can see.

What documentation are you using to learn hub? The manual documents -p (man hub or http://defunkt.github.com/hub/hub.1.html).

Just wondering where it needs to be added.

[defunkt]

coderanger: That's a nice idea but it won't work for Organizations, e.g. git clone github/secret-project for me.

[coderanger]

@defunkt Sure, but the majority of users probably just use it with personal repos. You can always do it manually for orgs (or someone elses' repo you are a commiter on).

[defunkt]

@coderanger Okay I 180'd, I like it.

[mislav]

How about keeping the public URL for pulling (current behavior), but also configuring a "pushurl" for pushing to contain the SSH URL.

Best of both worlds: you can still clone opensource projects which you don't own, but if you happen to have write access, you can push just as well.

Here's what I have for hub:

[remote "origin"]
    url = git://github.com/defunkt/hub.git
    pushurl = [email protected]:defunkt/hub.git

If -p was used, the main URL would be SSH (current behavior).

I agree that we could make -p implicit when cloning repos under your own name.

[sometimesfood]

I've been meaning to implement this for some time now, glad to see that I'm not the only one who would like hub to do this.

Here's a pull request:
#65

If you would like me to make any changes, just let me know.

[mislav]

Closing this because 1) I've just made a change to always clone own repos via SSH, and 2) there's now a configuration setting which turns on HTTPS globally so you can transition away from git:/ssh: protocols. Of course, with the former there is an issue with credential caching, but that's outside the scope of hub.

I don't want to turn on SSH by default since that would sabotage easy cloning of opensource repos.

[Natim]

I had to configure my bash like that but it is ugly:

function hub() {
  case $* in
    clone* ) shift 1; command hub clone -p $@ ;;
    * ) command hub $@ ;;
  esac
}

At least an env variable to be able to set -p as the default will be good. I don't understand why you couldn't clone opensource projects with -p option btw.

[udiboy1209]

I'm reviving a long settled matter I guess, but I would appreciate some config option to make ssh accesses / remote urls default. Maybe make git config --global hub.protocol ssh work. I am behind a firewall which blocks git:// url port and so I have currently settled to using https urls. But I would prefer ssh as it provides better speed.

[mislav]

Maybe make git config --global hub.protocol ssh work.

It works since 352ade6. Grab one of the 2.3.0-pre builds from the Releases section!

[udiboy1209]

Thats great! Thanks @mislav!