From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:34:43 GMT
Subject: Re: ssh username environment variable
Message-ID: <7vskag9vz0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100108202958.GL32155@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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 ...

I thought the standard answer was "use $HOME/.ssh/config", to set User
by keying on the remote hostname to which you are going.