On 7/9/25 6:17 PM, David Cooper wrote:

Ray,

I don't think it has (to have) anything to do with any of your existing keys. The gitlab interface gives you a new public key meant specifically for the mirroring instance, and you copy it with the clipboard icon in lower left of the image below ("Copy Public SSH Key").

I did that.

You then paste that key as a normal SSH key into the Settings -> SSH Keys of the owning github account of the target repository (not deploy key -- i think deploy keys are normally read-only aren't they?)

I did that too. I must have made a mistake last time because github said the key already existed. But I did it just now and there's an extra ssh key that I just added. Wonder what I did wrong?

(I didn't know until now but there's a button that says deploy keys can have write access.)

Anyway, I started the mirroring process again. Let's see how that goes...

Oh, in case any wants to know, the format of the url isn't really clear. What I ended up using was ssh://rtoy@github.com/rtoy/cmucl.git, since rtoy is my github uid. I think; I didn't write it down and gitlab doesn't show it and there doesn't seem to be any way to get it.

Thanks for your help!