The GIT_SSH environment variable has survived for quite a while without being documented, but has been mentioned on list and on my day-job repositories can only be accessed via magic supplied through the wonderous hack that is GIT_SSH. Advertising it alongside other "low level magic" such as GIT_PAGER and GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY will certainly help others who need to spread their own pixie dust to make things work. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4c4d174..18f8b6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -421,6 +421,22 @@ other to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch a pager. +'GIT_SSH':: + If this environment variable is set then gitlink:git-fetch[1] + and gitlink:git-push[1] will use this command instead + of `ssh` when they need to connect to a remote system. + The 'GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two arguments: + the 'username@host' (or just 'host') from the URL and the + shell command to execute on that remote system. ++ +To pass options to the program that you want to list in GIT_SSH +you will need to wrap the program and options into a shell script, +then set GIT_SSH to refer to the shell script. ++ +Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your +personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation +for further details. + 'GIT_FLUSH':: If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such as git-blame (in incremental mode), git-rev-list, git-log, -- 1.5.3.rc3.941.gaac97 - 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
