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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ssh username environment variable
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:29:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100108202958.GL32155@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a038bef51001081224l33164526y51e5ca064b82b73a@mail.gmail.com>

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 ...

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08 20:24 ssh username environment variable Chris Packham
2010-01-08 20:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-01-08 20:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-08 20:37     ` Chris Packham

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