Is public key required?

[50nar]

Why is the public key required? Shouldn't public key only be installed in actual repo and client only needs the private key ?

Thanks,

[jholloway7]

Has anyone tried just passing garbage for the public key? I'm trying to configure a gitfs backend in saltstack and hit this requirement after I was already knee deep into provisioning a server image without the public key.

It's simple enough to get the public key on the server, but adds one more thing to keep track of that doesn't seem relevant. Looking at the code I can't make out if it's even being used for anything.

I would try it myself, but I'm actually going to change course and just poll using git directly into a normal salt backend as the gitfs backend stack seems a little too shaky for production use.

[MasterGroosha]

Has anyone tried just passing garbage for the public key?

Won't work, since pygit2 expects a filesystem path. Also you cannot pass any valid path which is not a public key.

I encountered the same issue today and ended up re-creating my SSH credentials while keeping both keys (public & private) locally. After that I managed to push to my Gitea instance without any trouble.