Iceberg ?

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 27 May 2017, at 03:42, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> btw, I'm curious why the pub key is required?  Isn't it only needed at the
>>> other (github) end?
>
> no idea :)
> I just know that libgit2 requires it

I had a hunt.  The only hint I could find is...
 "for SSH authentication, the ssh user is [always?] 'git'. The
[public?] key is what's used for figuring out what the GitHub username
is."
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21122479/connect-to-private-github-repository-with-libgit2

Would that make sense? My annotations in square brackets.
cheers -ben