On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 12:33:50AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> By default, if the SSH binary is the default ("ssh"), Git assumes that
> it's OpenSSH and sends certain options to enable protocol v2, including
> -o SendEnv.
>
> If you don't want that, you can set "ssh.variant" to "simple", in which
> case Git will send only the username and the host, but not -p port, -4,
> -6, or -o. If you do need a different port, then you're out of luck,
> and will either have to install Putty (in which case, the ssh.variant
> value would need to be "putty") or upgrade OpenSSH. Otherwise, the
> simple value should work fine.
I think your suggestion is the most straight-forward one, but just in
case the "out of luck" part is a problem, you should also be able to
side-step the issue with:
git -c protocol.version=0 fetch ...
That would allow other features (assuming this older ssh version
supports them!) without triggering the SendEnv option.
-Peff
