I played with it some more,
looks like procedural error on my part (!my bad)
[that is part of the 'jumping in' process // learning // experience ]
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FWIW to other users going down the path:
a) when you create a project - open it up to 'logged on users'
b) if you will be using the "ssh/ g...@git.dev
several times around 2100 UTC on Friday I attempted to
olzeke51@devuan:~/builds/keybd/kbd$ d1h link g...@git.devuan.org:
garyz.dev1/trial.git
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin1/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
GitLab: The project you were looking for could n