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From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that SSH runs in non-interactive mode
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:49:43 +0200
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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?

Fredrik Tolf