Clone using git@github.com works but removes files at the end.

[ghostbar]

TRACE=1 jsgit clone git@github.com:creationix/js-git.git > log

Threw me this:
https://cloudup.com/cBWq4OiiJLh (The log was so big it didn't fit in here)

I'm left with a git directory working, but all the files removed and awaiting in staging. A git reset HEAD leaves me a perfectly sane directory.

node -v
v0.10.6

This is MacOSX 10.8.

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[ghostbar]

Just tried with node/v0.10.15 and it's the very same thing. With node/v0.11.5 throws Error: Invalid HMAC BUT cloning from HTTPS directly at github (not gists) works like a charm even in node/v0.11.5.

[creationix]

So the reason it thinks all the files were deleted is because the .git/index file is missing. repo.checkout is supposed to create that file after extracting the tree from the commit, but it doesn't seem to in this case. I can reproduce locally.

Also, github lets you clone using ssh on my repo? I thought that only worked if you have write access. That's really cool if they added read-only support for the ssh protocol.

[creationix]

As far as ssh not working in 0.11.x I suspect that's because mcsdex/ssh2 hasn't been tested for that version of node. It still seems to export the old streams interface from back in node 0.6.x

[ghostbar]

Yes! As long as you have a ssh-key registered on GitHub you can do ssh read-only which is really awesome :-D

I think the issue with v0.11.x has to do with that actually. Now that I re-reproduce it the stacktrace directs to the ssh2 parser:

Error: Invalid HMAC
    at Parser.execute (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/js-git-node/node_modules/js-git-node-platform/node_modules/ssh2/lib/Parser.js:204:30)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/js-git-node/node_modules/js-git-node-platform/node_modules/ssh2/lib/Connection.js:1332:18)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:100:17)
    at Socket.Readable.read (_stream_readable.js:357:10)
    at flow (_stream_readable.js:725:26)
    at emitReadable_ (_stream_readable.js:410:3)
    at emitReadable (_stream_readable.js:403:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:160:9)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:122:10)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:512:21)