Re: ssh username environment variable

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"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.
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