[FFmpeg-devel] Call for SSH pubkeys for git repository at videolan.org

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:58:53AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 07:00 PM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:24:39PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> >> my previous call for SSH pubkeys from current svn committers seems to
> >> gone by mostly unnoticed. I got only 3 keys.
> >>
> >> Please reply with your SSH pubkey attached and preferably signed with
> >> the GPG key in MAINTAINERS for push access to the FFmpeg git
> >> repositories at git.videolan.org.
> > 
> > Nothing to be done about it, but for the record I'm not overly excited
> > about losing password-only commits, that means no more commits
> > from a friend's PC...
> 
> Since it gives us the ability to keep having commits when there is no
> network, I think is worth the disadvantage of having to bring your
> private key around. =)

1) git-svn could do it before
2) for simple things that worked fine with plain SVN
3) there is no real technical reason for type of version control
   implying the method of authentication