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I managed to submit a patch to an extension few minutes ago.

I used a method, however, that does not scale. I downloaded the extension individually as a git repository and set it up to use git review. If I had to do that for each skin and extension, I had to type my key pass phrase 3060 times, spending almost 26 hours typing pass phrases without a break. With waiting times between the prompts, that would add up to some 56 to 62 hours, not counting sleeping times, that is more than a working week. I refuse to do that. There must be a better solution.

You can use "ssh-add" to avoid retyping the passphrase.

How would I do that?  :-( seems not to work on several hosts.  man ssh-add does not enlighten me enough.

$ ssh-add -t 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
$

I don't know. I just type "ssh-add" on my machine.

That was my 1st try - yielding the same error message.