"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Chris Packham <judge.packham@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html