From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:45:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connect: handle putty/plink also in GIT_SSH_COMMAND
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701261535100.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqefzq936b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] connect: rename tortoiseplink and putty variables
> 
> One of these two may have originally been named after "what exact
> SSH implementation do we have" so that we can tweak the command line
> options, but these days "putty=1" no longer means "We are using the
> plink SSH implementation that comes with PuTTY".  It is set when we
> guess that either PuTTY plink or Tortoiseplink is in use.
> 
> Rename them after what effect is desired.  The current "putty"
> option is about using "-P <port>" when OpenSSH would use "-p <port>",
> so rename it to port_option whose value is either 'p' or 'P".  The
> other one is about passing an extra command line option "-batch",
> so rename it needs_batch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Apart from an overly-long line, this patch looks good. It made my life a
little harder, as I had to rebase Segev's ssh.variant (why this should be
a core.* variable is not clear to me) patch and it caused conflicts. I
resolved those conflicts and made both patches part of this patch series.

Will contribute v2 as soon as the test suite passes,
Johannes