Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH 06/12] connect: Fix custom ports with plink (Putty's ssh)

From: Edward Z. Yang <edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com>
Date: Jul 4, 2008, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <486E83F7.8070105@thewritingpot.com>
In-Reply-To: <1f748ec60807040909r4022d714s4487f5991f6020dc@mail.gmail.com>

Clifford Caoile wrote:

> Perhaps I have traded one problem for another, because the msysgit
> user still has to be aware of MSYSGIT_REAL_PLINK (at least she doesn't
> have to set it up). And of course, the installer has to be modified to
> accommodate plinkssh and my proposal.

This feels unnecessarily complicated.

What would be cool is if we could just set GIT_SSH to plinkssh -path-to-plink "C:\Path\To\plink.exe" (obviously a shorter flag or something). Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with Git's current command argument handling.

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