Re: ssh username environment variable

[Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just wondering if there is an environment variable I can use to tell
>>> git or ssh what user name to use for the ssh transport?
>>
>> No.  But you can hack around it:
>>
>>   cat >$HOME/bin/git-ssh
>>   #!/bin/sh
>>   ssh -l $GIT_SSH_USER "$@"
>>   ^D
>>
>>   GIT_SSH=$HOME/bin/git-ssh GIT_SSH_USER=myname git clone ...
>
> I thought the standard answer was "use $HOME/.ssh/config", to set User
> by keying on the remote hostname to which you are going.
>

Yeah thats what I've done after reading a few more man pages.