From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:25:41 GMT Subject: Re: Calling ssh from git-gui Message-ID: <20080903172541.GD28315@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <200809031922.07083.trast@student.ethz.ch> Thomas Rast wrote: > 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.