On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "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. > Yeah thats what I've done after reading a few more man pages. -- 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