Once their account is allowed to write to the project, translators can download the translation files using the checkout commands mentioned in Chapter 1, For translators: translating Debian Installer.

Developers can download the full project source tree using git and mr commands as detailed in Chapter 2, For maintainers: maintaining internationalized Debian Installer packages. Note, that this is not necessary for translators!

ssh connections require you to use RSA key-based authentication to connect to salsa.debian.org.

If you don't have an existing SSH keypair on your local system, you must create one with the ssh-keygen command:

spongebob@mykerinos:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/spongebob/.ssh/id_dsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/spongebob/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/spongebob/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
8d:6d:14:72:72:07:01:6a:85:de:97:d3:aa:b2:ee:4a spongebob@mykerinos

In the example above, the user spongebob creates a SSH RSA keypair, which is saved in a directory named .ssh in his/her home directory.

This keypair is protected by a passphrase. The passphrase has to be entered each time the keypair will be used to connect to a remote host. Take care to choose a non trivial passphrase.

After doing so, the public part of that keypair must be put in your account on salsa.debian.org.

In case users have problems with GIT checkouts/commits, they can ask for help, either on IRC, #debian-boot on irc.debian.org or by mail with the Debian Installer i18n coordinators.