What steps will reproduce the problem? I was trying to pair two repositories on 2 different computers, but my public key had this email address at the end: bachir@Bachirs-iMac.local What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I was expecting successful pairing. I got: bad comment in ssh public key ssh-rsa AAB3....SAK bachir@Bachirs-iMac.local What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? I am using the package git-annex Version: 3.20120925 on MacOSX Lion Please provide any additional information below. I've checked your code, seems to complain about the dash '-' in the email address bachir@Bachirs-iMac.local > This bug is already fixed, the fix is in the > 3.20121001 release. [[done]] --[[Joey]]