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| author |  Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-08-04 02:06:52 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-08-04 01:55:08 -0700 |
| commit | d5538b418d658d507f7fb9f359b31152a9b5f8e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 23da698e1bb6c5fc11fffe2412f37b56d9ab100c /Documentation | |
| parent | INSTALL: add warning on docbook-xsl 1.72 and 1.73 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d5538b418d658d507f7fb9f359b31152a9b5f8e0.tar.xz | |
Document GIT_SSH environment variable alongside other variables
The GIT_SSH environment variable has survived for quite a while
without being documented, but has been mentioned on list and on
my day-job repositories can only be accessed via magic supplied
through the wonderous hack that is GIT_SSH.
Advertising it alongside other "low level magic" such as GIT_PAGER
and GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY will certainly help others who need to
spread their own pixie dust to make things work.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4c4d1746e0..18f8b6a0a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -421,6 +421,22 @@ other to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch a pager. +'GIT_SSH':: + If this environment variable is set then gitlink:git-fetch[1] + and gitlink:git-push[1] will use this command instead + of `ssh` when they need to connect to a remote system. + The 'GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two arguments: + the 'username@host' (or just 'host') from the URL and the + shell command to execute on that remote system. ++ +To pass options to the program that you want to list in GIT_SSH +you will need to wrap the program and options into a shell script, +then set GIT_SSH to refer to the shell script. ++ +Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your +personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation +for further details. + 'GIT_FLUSH':: If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such as git-blame (in incremental mode), git-rev-list, git-log, |