Auto-connection requests for Gitu

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Gitu is a terminal user interface for git. I’m requesting auto-connections for interfaces needed to access config files and do common git operations.

home and removable-media

To work with git repo’s in the user’s home directory and external media

network and ssh-keys

To work with remotes (push, pull, fetch)

personal-files

Read access git’s ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git.

system-files

Read access to git’s /etc/gitconfig.

Sources

Thanks!

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Hey @mr_cal

+1 from me for granting read access to ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git via personal-files interface and * /etc/gitconfig* via personal-files interface. Even if the snap is not the clear owner of those files, they are clearly needed for the snap operation. Publisher vetting will be required in this case.

Whilst placing git repos on external media may be a bit niche, I’m still giving a +1 for auto-connection to removable-media as it sounds reasonable to me.

ssh-keys interface is quite sensitive as it exposes user’s private keys. I would prefer to stick to manual connection and let the user decide.

home and network interfaces should not require any additional permissions for auto-connection.

Thanks

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Thanks for the response!

I understand that ssh-keys is a sensitive interface, but I would consider being able to push, pull and fetch from remotes to be a fundamental feature of a git tool.

I know that non-authenticated fetching would still work, but I imagine the majority of developers use ssh authentication for remote repos.

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Hey @mr_cal, I agree it is a fundamental feature but I would let the user manually connect to it since user should know what snap is accessing in this case.

+1 from me for auto-connecting read access to ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git via personal-files interface and /etc/gitconfig via personal-files interface, and +1 on the manual connect on the ssh-keys interface to this snap

thanks

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I approve the connection to the requested

  • personal-files for ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git
  • system-files for /etc/gitconfig

I would keep ssh-keys as a manual connection.

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@mr_cal Can you please rename the personal-files instance to dot-gitconfig to match the usual precedence around this, and similarly the system-files interface as etc-gitconfig? Thanks

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Renamed, thanks!

Manual access to ssh-keys is OK with me. I’ve added a note to the readme to inform users.

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+2 for, 0 against granting gitu the requested interfaces. The publisher is vetted. This is now live

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