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Improve SSH commit signing instructions #2265
Improve SSH commit signing instructions #2265
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More the merrier. :> |
Signed-off-by: Jonah Aragon <jonah@triplebit.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonah Aragon <jonah@triplebit.net>
what is wrong with cat? and just copying it after, works on my (and your) machine |
mm, instead I've just updated this PR to have the command point to a file containing your public key, rather than pasting your public key at the end of the command. This seems to be the recommended (by GitHub) way to do it now anyways, I'm not sure why the instructions didn't do this before, unless this behavior wasn't supported by the very first implementation of SSH key signing in Git? 🤷♂️ (i.e. |
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Changes proposed in this PR:
This PR is to suggest a WSL method for assigning a SSH git key using the
xclip
command, rather thanpbcopy
.Saves people time figuring out Ubuntu doesn't have the
pbcopy
package, and is pretty straightforward.