From: Dan Bornstein <danfuzz@milk.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Bornstein <danfuzz@milk.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Correct the docs about GIT_SSH.
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:06:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363907200-12850-1-git-send-email-danfuzz@milk.com> (raw)
In particular, it can get called with four arguments if you happen to
be referring to a repo using the ssh:// scheme with a non-default port
number.
Signed-off-by: Dan Bornstein <danfuzz@milk.com>
---
Documentation/git.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7efaa59..4307d62 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -774,9 +774,12 @@ other
If this environment variable is set then 'git fetch'
and 'git push' will use this command instead
of 'ssh' when they need to connect to a remote system.
- The '$GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two arguments:
- the 'username@host' (or just 'host') from the URL and the
- shell command to execute on that remote system.
+ The '$GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two or
+ four arguments: the 'username@host' (or just 'host')
+ from the URL and the shell command to execute on that
+ remote system, optionally preceded by '-p' (literally) and
+ the 'port' from the URL when it specifies something other
+ than the default SSH port.
+
To pass options to the program that you want to list in GIT_SSH
you will need to wrap the program and options into a shell script,
--
1.7.4.5
next reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 23:07 UTC|newest]
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2013-03-21 23:06 Dan Bornstein [this message]
2013-03-26 14:52 ` [PATCH] Correct the docs about GIT_SSH Junio C Hamano
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