I am using git versioning for KiCad files for a while. In KiCad 9 git version control shows up, so I decide to give it a try. It seems to be working locally, however it does not work, with remote server. I have my git credentials configured for git globally (username, access token instead of password) - it works from windows command line and also from git command prompt. The remote server is gitlab and I am using http access. Screenshots follows:
If I try to clone project from our gitlab server, connection test is passed successfully, project is cloned, however if I try to pull changes, it again report the same error (failed to set the credentials). Screenshots follows:
I’m testing it too.
For github, you need to create a public ssh key and put it in your profile (your profile->settings->ssh and gpg keys->add key.
Then when you clone repository from git, select ssh as connection type (you have https selected as your screenshot shows), then KiCad asks for the location of the private key you want to use. Select it, and then it works.
What I yet not have found is where KiCad (or git?) stores that information. I’d like to change existing repositories (that where cloned with github desktop using oauth) to work with the git integration, without the need to re-clone them.
Since I have troubles with that feature too: you mean with github, you HAVE to use ssh instead of https? I prefer https because I don´t have to organise/manage the ssh keys across different machines
On your systems credential manager for https. Windows → Credential Manager
SSH keys are based on automatic trial of keys in your /User/.ssh/ folder.
The choice of https or ssh is based on the “remote” configuration on the cloned repo and it’s entirely based on whether the remote starts with https or not.
You can use git remote in cli to see the options to view your remote and change it.
I set up the ssh acces based on keys and it seems to work. However, if I select version control → pull from the context menu, it connects to the server and fetch the changes, but it does not the fast-forward the actual branch. Kicad indicates this by orange clock icon next to the filename. Do you have any idea how to make Kicad to do pull instead of fetch?
