yay not passing through SSH key passphrase entry(/pinentry) prompt?

[ido]

Affected Version

yay v10.2.3 - libalpm v13.0.0

Describe the bug

When using yay to update AUR packages (e.g. yay -Syua), if a passphrase is needed for my ssh key to access AUR (which is a separate IdentityFile configured in my .ssh/config), then yay does not pass through the passphrase prompt and instead seems to hang. I think that's what's going on, given that yay -> git -> ssh is in pstree where it gets stuck. There is an SSH passphrase prompt happening somewhere, but it seems to not have access to my tty.

Reproduction Steps

1. ssh-add -D # remove all identities from ssh-agent
2. yay -Syua # update from AUR with yay when configured for AUR via git+ssh.

Expected behavior

I expected to be prompted to enter my SSH key passphrase. Note that this only occurs with inline pinentry/passphrase entry (the default), not with pinentry GUI modes, when using git+ssh.

Output

$ yay -Syua                                                                                                                [20/20]
:: Searching AUR for updates...
[...snip...]
==> Packages to exclude: (eg: "1 2 3", "1-3", "^4" or repo name)
==>
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:16] [...snip...]
[...waits forever without further output...]

[Morganamilo]

Does this happen with --nodevel?

[ido]

Problem persists with --nodevel. (To be clear, once I ssh-add my AUR ssh key to my ssh-agent, everything works fine.)

As a side note, yay also seems to barf if the SSH connection is reset/interrupted, and does not retry the git clone. (That's harder to reproduce, though.)

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[ido]

Problem persists.

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[dannyMendozaa]

Same problem here, did you find a way to avoid yay asking for passphrase?