Some people are specifying the username directly in the url with the following syntax: ssh://<username>@git.freedesktop.org/git/<repo>, but dim expects something like ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/<repo>. Update the documentation to document how to assign a default username when connecting to git.freedesktop.org through SSH. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- dim.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/dim.rst b/dim.rst index 911b4666b4aa..bbb1d15a6d4b 100644 --- a/dim.rst +++ b/dim.rst @@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ This will also check out the latest maintainer-tools branches, so please replace the dim you just downloaded with a symlink after this step. And by the way, if you have improvements for dim, please submit them to intel-gfx. +If you have a freedesktop.org account and plan to push things on one of the +drm-xxx repos, you should use the ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/drm-xxx urls +when adding a remote and, if it's not already done, you should add new entry in +~/.ssh/config: + + $ printf '\nHost git.freedesktop.org\n\tUser <username>' >> ~/.ssh/config + You should now have a main repository for patch application. The directory corresponding to this repository is defined by DIM_DRM_INTEL in your .dimrc. You should also have directories called maintainer-tools, drm-tip (for -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
