From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Patrick Sharp <jakanapes@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:29:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150422212904.GA32043@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150422211915.GB827497@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:19:15PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > Note that I don't think just switching the strcasestr to look for
> > "plink.exe" is right. For one thing, it just punts on the problem (it
> > can still happen, it's just less likely to trigger). But for another,
> > you can have plink (without ".exe") on Linux systems.
>
> Perhaps it would be worthwhile to check instead if the text "plink" is
> the beginning of string or is preceded by a path separator. That would
> give us a bit more confidence that the user is looking for plink, but
> would still allow people to use "plink-0.63" if they like.
Yeah, I think that is a reasonable approach. Note that it needs to
handle the "tortoiseplink" case from below, too (you can still use your
strategy, you just need to look for either string).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-22 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 14:36 [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true Patrick Sharp
2015-04-22 17:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-22 19:12 ` Patrick Sharp
2015-04-22 20:29 ` Jeff King
2015-04-22 21:19 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 21:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-04-22 21:44 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 22:00 ` Jeff King
2015-04-22 22:24 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-22 23:23 ` Jeff King
2015-04-23 0:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-23 0:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-23 6:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-23 15:53 ` Jeff King
2015-04-23 23:14 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 6:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 22:46 ` Pete Harlan
2015-04-24 22:48 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-25 16:03 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-26 18:52 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve robustness of putty detection brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] connect: simplify SSH connection code path brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 20:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives brian m. carlson
2015-04-27 7:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-28 3:53 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 13:15 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-26 16:27 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 17:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-06-26 17:23 ` Jeff King
2015-06-26 20:43 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-26 22:04 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Improve robustness of putty detection Junio C Hamano
2015-04-27 15:46 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-28 4:15 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 1:38 ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-24 6:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives Johannes Schindelin
2015-04-23 5:08 ` [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-23 13:15 ` Patrick Sharp
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