hexo-deployer-git does not reference my ~/.ssh/config settings, OR it is not using my ssh user agent

[MSoup]

Check List

• [X] I have already read README.
• [X] I have already searched existing issues and they are not help to me.
• [X] I examined error or warning messages and it's difficult to solve.
• [X] I am using the latest version of this repository.
• [X] I am using the latest version of Hexo.
• [X] My Node.js is matched the required version.

Describe the bug

npx hexo deploy does not reference my ~/.ssh/config or it is not using my ssh user agent.

As a result, it hangs at the deploy step.

...
INFO  90 files generated in 743 ms
INFO  Deploying: git
INFO  Clearing .deploy_git folder...
INFO  Copying files from public folder...

It does not proceed from the above and I have to restart my computer in order to get my daemon back in a functioning state (colima).

Expected behavior

git authenticates via my ssh user agent, checks the ~/.ssh/config file to map personal.github.com to github.com before finally authenticating with the remote and pushing my static bundle

How to reproduce

1. From within dev container, run npx hexo clean && npx hexo deploy

Screenshots

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Environment information

hexo: 7.2.0
hexo-cli: 4.3.2
os: linux 6.5.0-42-generic Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 12 (bookworm)
node: 20.15.0
acorn: 8.11.3
ada: 2.7.8
ares: 1.28.1
base64: 0.5.2
brotli: 1.1.0
cjs_module_lexer: 1.2.2
cldr: 45.0
icu: 75.1
llhttp: 8.1.2
modules: 115
napi: 9
nghttp2: 1.61.0
nghttp3: 0.7.0
ngtcp2: 1.1.0
openssl: 3.0.13+quic
simdutf: 5.2.8
tz: 2024a
undici: 6.13.0
unicode: 15.1
uv: 1.46.0
uvwasi: 0.0.21
v8: 11.3.244.8-node.23
zlib: 1.3.0.1-motley-7d77fb7

Additional context

I have tested from within my dev container that ssh user agent forwarding is working as expected, and regular git commands work as well.

From within my dev container

root@cc7327dbf799:/app# ssh-add -l
256 SHA256:/pARioj... (ED25519)

root@cc7327dbf799:/app# git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 49, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (49/49), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 32 (delta 14), reused 30 (delta 12), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (32/32), 9.27 KiB | 50.00 KiB/s, done.

My remote URL looks like

root@cc7327dbf799:/app# git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git (push)

And my ~/.ssh/config looks like

Host personal.github.com
  HostName github.com

I don't know how to further inspect what is happening. I know that with git I can do something like GIT_TRACE=true git pull, but I cannot do the same for this tool in order to further debug.

[uiolee]

https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-deployer-git/blob/ef1a2027e4fbc19e5d1fc92c0f5f4f7f6d1ddf87/lib/deployer.js#L94-L109

Judging from the logs you provided, it's stuck at the step of copying files, which has nothing to do with ssh.

Or maybe you haven't provide complete logs.

[MSoup]

Thank you for the observations. I decided to try the same steps without the dev container to focus on the topic of git/ssh and not possible permissions issues within the dev container.

Observations

Now the public folder is deployed, but as the deployer doesn't reference my ~/.ssh/config file, it is using the wrong private key to deploy to the gh pages branch. (it shows my other account as the account that pushed to the gh-pages branch)

Temp Fix

The only temporary fix I know right now is forcing the deploy script to use a different "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, like

"deploy": "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Foo' GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='[email protected]' hexo deploy",

I have also tried setting name and email from within _config.yml but the deployer doesn't seem to pick them up either.

Is there anything I can do to produce more helpful logs?

[uiolee]

deployer doesn't reference my ~/.ssh/config file

deployer just simply exec git commit git push and so on. It's possible that you haven't configured ssh or git correctly.

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I have also tried setting name and email from within _config.yml but the deployer doesn't seem to pick them up either.

#353 has solved this issue but has not been published to npmjs yet.

you can try:

npm i https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-deployer-git/tree/880a3c3332d82743521f86737b7d815b128e622b