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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-26 13:14:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-26 13:14:11 -0700 |
| commit | f4ccd9f1bd00325a52199be008af7230b4b8f5ab (patch) | |
| tree | 181c233225b03efe85075953b6d74e770efa2967 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'we/submodule-update-prefix-output' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | Correct the docs about GIT_SSH. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-f4ccd9f1bd00325a52199be008af7230b4b8f5ab.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
Correct the docs about GIT_SSH.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 7efaa591b8..4307d62bd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -774,9 +774,12 @@ other If this environment variable is set then 'git fetch' and 'git push' will use this command instead of 'ssh' when they need to connect to a remote system. - The '$GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two arguments: - the 'username@host' (or just 'host') from the URL and the - shell command to execute on that remote system. + The '$GIT_SSH' command will be given exactly two or + four arguments: the 'username@host' (or just 'host') + from the URL and the shell command to execute on that + remote system, optionally preceded by '-p' (literally) and + the 'port' from the URL when it specifies something other + than the default SSH port. + 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, |