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Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH 06/12] connect: Fix custom ports with plink
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Clifford Caoile wrote:
> Perhaps I have traded one problem for another, because the msysgit
> user still has to be aware of MSYSGIT_REAL_PLINK (at least she doesn't
> have to set it up). And of course, the installer has to be modified to
> accommodate plinkssh and my proposal.

This feels unnecessarily complicated.

What would be cool is if we could just set GIT_SSH to plinkssh 
-path-to-plink "C:\Path\To\plink.exe" (obviously a shorter flag or 
something). Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with Git's current 
command argument handling.