Hi, On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 12:27 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Well, this was to be expected, after what I wrote in response to 3. in > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/76650/focus=2598 > > > > Reality always catches up with you, and here again we see that plink > > and other siblings of OpenSSH should be best handled with scripts, > > preferably ones that strip out options they do not recognize. > > Otherwise, an alternative may be to always install a script, say > `git-ssh', that would invoke the real SSH in a manner specific for the > platform. The exact script installed could even be parametrized by the > Makefile. For systems using OpenSSH, it would probably just consist of > `ssh -xT "$@"'. > > What do you think? Umm, why? I fully expect OpenSSH to be the most common ssh helper. I fail to see why we should optimize for something else. The GIT_SSH solution works. Why not just leave things like they are? Ciao, Dscho -- 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