can't clone repository xpdf. using ssh instead of https about pdfalto HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @jbollmeyer !

You mean that you can't clone the xpdf submodule with https only ? I am asking because of the title of the issue. On my machine it work fine with https because I have the ssh key set-up on github.

If I understand correctly, this is definitively annoying because it forces users to set-up a ssh key for cloning the submodule. But then I don't see what we can do about it, because it seems that it is how github works with submodules. We could try to work without submodules but it would mean a more complicated installation with 2 repositories.

Do you have any suggestions maybe to address this issue ?

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Hi,
i dont know how to switch to https. I followed your description on the repository. I am more a administrator and not a developer. Till now i had never needed a github account.

But i can check how i can setup a public key with github. Is this public key githjub wide used or it is only?

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OK, so easy. added the Public key of the maschine to my github account.
Did not know this was possible.

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Actually setting-up the ssh key on the github account is necessary to push to public repositories since a few months (there is a token mechanism for https only, but it's really not user friendly), so I guess it's anyway hard to avoid when using github.

Feel free to close the issue if you think the problem is solved. Happy to help if you have more issues of course !

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