I'm writing a cronjob that will git fetch
. I have a private key that I often use for authenticated git things (like github) which has a passphrase on it, but this specific git fetch
doesn't need the key. My key is saved in the normal location of .ssh/id_rsa
. Everything is wonderful when I have an ssh-agent
running, but my cronjob doesn't have that luxury.
I've tried GIT_ASKPASS=echo git fetch
but that just fails the passkey and won't fetch the repo.