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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, msysgit@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Calling ssh from git-gui
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:25:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903172541.GD28315@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809031922.07083.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but
> > maybe that's what we have to do.  Be nice though if the window only
> > was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard
> > to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because
> > the network is a 2400 baud modem".
> 
> You can set BatchMode (ssh_config(5)) to at least prevent it from
> hanging, can't you?

True, but this is OpenSSH specific, and has to be done on the
command line, which git-gui has no control over.

Maybe git fetch and push can check for a tty on fd 0 and enable
try to enable batch mode if fd 0 isn't a tty?

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-03 16:54 Calling ssh from git-gui Petr Baudis
2008-09-03 17:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-03 17:22   ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-03 17:25     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-09-03 17:33   ` Petr Baudis

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