Re: how to pass ssh options to git?

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Nov 2, 2006, 11:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20061102112720.GA8469@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20061102110639.G523a966f@leonov.stosberg.net>

Quoting r. Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>:

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> Subject: Re: how to pass ssh options to git?
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > I know, problem is I want to use different options at different times.
> > I could use -F configfile ssh option, but how to pass *that* to git?
>  
> You can set the path of the ssh executable to use with the GIT_SSH
> environment variable.  Create a shell script like
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec ssh --your-options-- $*
> 
> and make GIT_SSH point to it.

Thanks, I'll try that. BTW, just grep for GIT_SSH gets me some more: GIT_SSH_UPLOAD, GIT_SSH_PUSH, GIT_SSH_PULL, GIT_SSH_FETCH. None of which appear to be documented.