From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:38:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GIT_SSH does not override ssh in git-svn
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908172336410.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A89C6F8.3010100@fastmail.fm>

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Karthik R wrote:

> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karthik R <karthikr@fastmail.fm>
> ---
> 
> Setting GIT_SSH when using "git svn clone svn+ssh://..." does not override the
> default ssh; SVN_SSH needs to be set instead. Corrected this.
> 
> Also, on Windows, SVN_SSH needs to be set with \ escaped
>  e.g., "C:\\PuTTY\\plink.exe"
> 
> See http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=305

This probably all wants to go into the commit message: it is very useful 
information!

Besides, I think you would like to formulate the commit subject more 
positive: "Respect GIT_SSH in git-svn" or some such.  After all, you fix 
the issue.  IOW use the imperative: you command git-svn to behave ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho