On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 04:29:10PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I think you want something like:
>
> diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
> index 9ae991a..58aad56 100644
> --- a/connect.c
> +++ b/connect.c
> @@ -568,7 +568,8 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url_orig,
> conn->argv = arg = xcalloc(7, sizeof(*arg));
> if (protocol == PROTO_SSH) {
> const char *ssh = getenv("GIT_SSH");
> - int putty = ssh && strcasestr(ssh, "plink");
> + int putty = ssh && (ends_with(ssh, "plink") ||
> + ends_with("plink.exe"));
> if (!ssh) ssh = "ssh";
>
> *arg++ = ssh;
>
> though that is not quite enough (we do not have a case-insensitive
> version of "ends_with"). I'm also not sure if matching just "plink" and
> "plink.exe" at the end of the string is enough (I'm just guessing that
> was the original reason for using strstr in the first place).
>
> Note that I don't think just switching the strcasestr to look for
> "plink.exe" is right. For one thing, it just punts on the problem (it
> can still happen, it's just less likely to trigger). But for another,
> you can have plink (without ".exe") on Linux systems.
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to check instead if the text "plink" is
the beginning of string or is preceded by a path separator. That would
give us a bit more confidence that the user is looking for plink, but
would still allow people to use "plink-0.63" if they like.
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