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From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ssh username environment variable
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:37:36 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just wondering if there is an environment variable I can use to tel=
l
>>> git or ssh what user name to use for the ssh transport?
>>
>> No. =C2=A0But you can hack around it:
>>
>> =C2=A0 cat >$HOME/bin/git-ssh
>> =C2=A0 #!/bin/sh
>> =C2=A0 ssh -l $GIT_SSH_USER "$@"
>> =C2=A0 ^D
>>
>> =C2=A0 GIT_SSH=3D$HOME/bin/git-ssh GIT_SSH_USER=3Dmyname git clone .=
=2E.
>
> I thought the standard answer was "use $HOME/.ssh/config", to set Use=
r
> by keying on the remote hostname to which you are going.
>

Yeah thats what I've done after reading a few more man pages.