Re: Calling ssh from git-gui

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 3, 2008, 17:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20080903172541.GD28315@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809031922.07083.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but
> > maybe that's what we have to do.  Be nice though if the window only
> > was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard
> > to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because
> > the network is a 2400 baud modem".
> 
> You can set BatchMode (ssh_config(5)) to at least prevent it from
> hanging, can't you?

True, but this is OpenSSH specific, and has to be done on the command line, which git-gui has no control over.

Maybe git fetch and push can check for a tty on fd 0 and enable try to enable batch mode if fd 0 isn't a tty?

-- 
Shawn.