Re: Pulling from a linux box to a Solaris 9 OS

> On 20 Oct 2023, at 07:27, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:33:50AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
>> 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