Re: Pulling from a linux box to a Solaris 9 OS
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Oct 20, 2023, 06:27 UTC
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- <20231020062738.GA1642714@coredump.intra.peff.net>
- In-Reply-To
- <ZTHK7o5LXvMB5EeJ@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:33:50AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> By default, if the SSH binary is the default ("ssh"), Git assumes that
> it's OpenSSH and sends certain options to enable protocol v2, including
> -o SendEnv.
>
> If you don't want that, you can set "ssh.variant" to "simple", in which
> case Git will send only the username and the host, but not -p port, -4,
> -6, or -o. If you do need a different port, then you're out of luck,
> and will either have to install Putty (in which case, the ssh.variant
> value would need to be "putty") or upgrade OpenSSH. Otherwise, the
> simple value should work fine.I think your suggestion is the most straight-forward one, but just in case the "out of luck" part is a problem, you should also be able to side-step the issue with:
git -c protocol.version=0 fetch ...
That would allow other features (assuming this older ssh version supports them!) without triggering the SendEnv option.
-Peff