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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Apr 24, 2015, 22:48 UTC
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<20150424224833.GC322887@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 03:46:30PM -0700, Pete Harlan wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:28 PM, brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> > The git_connect function has code to handle plink and tortoiseplink
> > specially, as they require different command line arguments from
> > OpenSSH.  However, the match was done by checking for "plink"
> > case-insensitively in the string, which led to false positives when
> 
> Perhaps s/case-insensitively/anywhere/?
>
> It's not important that it ignored case (your change ignores it too),
> it's that it was too lenient about its context.

Yes, I don't know what I was thinking. I'll wait a bit to see if there are any more comments and then reroll.

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Message 20 of 41 in “[BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true”
  1. Patrick SharpApr 22, 2015
  2. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2015
  3. Patrick SharpApr 22, 2015
  4. Jeff KingApr 22, 2015
  5. brian m. carlsonApr 22, 2015
  6. Jeff KingApr 22, 2015
  7. brian m. carlsonApr 22, 2015
  8. Jeff KingApr 22, 2015
  9. brian m. carlsonApr 22, 2015
  10. Jeff KingApr 22, 2015
  11. 1/2 connect: simplify SSH connection code pathbrian m. carlson, Apr 23, 2015
  12. 2/2 connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positivesbrian m. carlson, Apr 23, 2015
  13. Johannes SchindelinApr 23, 2015
  14. Jeff KingApr 23, 2015
  15. brian m. carlsonApr 23, 2015
  16. Johannes SchindelinApr 24, 2015
  17. 1/2 connect: simplify SSH connection code pathbrian m. carlson, Apr 24, 2015
  18. 2/2 connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positivesbrian m. carlson, Apr 24, 2015
  19. Pete HarlanApr 24, 2015
  20. brian m. carlsonApr 24, 2015
  21. Torsten BögershausenApr 25, 2015
  22. brian m. carlsonApr 26, 2015
  23. 0/3 Improve robustness of putty detectionbrian m. carlson, Apr 26, 2015
  24. 1/3 connect: simplify SSH connection code pathbrian m. carlson, Apr 26, 2015
  25. 2/3 t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped testsbrian m. carlson, Apr 26, 2015
  26. 3/3 connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positivesbrian m. carlson, Apr 26, 2015
  27. Johannes SchindelinApr 27, 2015
  28. Jeff KingApr 28, 2015
  29. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  30. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2015
  31. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  32. Johannes SchindelinJun 26, 2015
  33. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  34. brian m. carlsonJun 26, 2015
  35. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2015
  36. Torsten BögershausenApr 27, 2015
  37. Jeff KingApr 28, 2015
  38. brian m. carlsonApr 29, 2015
  39. Johannes SchindelinApr 24, 2015
  40. Torsten BögershausenApr 23, 2015
  41. Patrick SharpApr 23, 2015

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