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Bug: Have to enter ssh key passphrase multiple times

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The ssh key password isn’t being cached when deploying, resulting in multiple prompts. This caused me to think that ghpages was broken and it took me a long time to figure out it was actually prompting multiple times. Here’s the output:

👨‍🚀 Uploading via git, please wait...
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa': 
🚀 Successfully published via angular-cli-ghpages! Have a nice day!

OSX version 10.14.6 angular-cli-ghpages version 0.6.2

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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distinctdancommented, Aug 4, 2020

Ok, I think I understand why it’s happening, but regardless of the technical reasons, this is still a user experience bug because it acts broken. It really shouldn’t prompt more than once for the ssh password. There has to be a way to accomplish that because other applications are able to use git without repeated prompts. At the bare minimum, at least something should be added to the docs or better yet in the console output itself to warn that this is normal behavior.

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JohannesHoppecommented, Dec 12, 2020

Many thanks for the help. 👍 I added an entry to the FAQ:

https://github.com/angular-schule/angular-cli-ghpages/wiki/FAQ