Hi,
Git differentiates between different variants of SSH tools.
One variant is the tortoiseplink variant. When this is configured Git
passes passes a special "--batch" parameter and passes the port using
"-P" (capitalized P) t the SSH tool.
IIRC tortoiseplink was initially created by TortoiseCVS which is
nowadays not maintained any more
(<http://www.tortoisecvs.org/download.shtml>).
In TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit tortoiseplink was modified six years ago
(around 2015-03-07) to ignore the "--batch" parameter and also accept
"-p" additionally to "-P" (cf.
<https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/scm/svn/commits/26348>).
Therefore, my first question: Does Git still want to support very old
versions of tortoiseplink or should I provide a patch which drops
support for it?
Second question:
TortoiseGit comes with an even more improved version of TortoisePLink
(named TortoiseGitPLink, but also ships the same binary as
tortoiseplink) that also accepts "-o SetEnv=..." parameters in order to
support the Git protocol version 2. At the moment TortoiseGit
automatically sets the environment variable "GIT_SSH_VARIANT=ssh". This
works, but is not perfect if other parameter of OpenSSH are used. Would
it make sense to add a new ssh variant tortoisegitplink? If yes, how to
handle new versions that might also support even more OpenSSH command
line parameters?
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Best regards,
Sven Strickroth
PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server
