From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:29:58 GMT
Subject: Re: ssh username environment variable
Message-ID: <20100108202958.GL32155@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <a038bef51001081224l33164526y51e5ca064b82b73a@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if there is an environment variable I can use to tell
> git or ssh what user name to use for the ssh transport?

No.  But you can hack around it:

  cat >$HOME/bin/git-ssh
  #!/bin/sh
  ssh -l $GIT_SSH_USER "$@"
  ^D

  GIT_SSH=$HOME/bin/git-ssh GIT_SSH_USER=myname git clone ...

-- 
Shawn.