From: Dan Bornstein Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:06:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Correct the docs about GIT_SSH. X-Git-Tag: v1.8.1.6~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/e39c695d871d877a621e39cef7e5bd208bb7b157 Correct the docs about GIT_SSH. In particular, it can get called with four arguments if you happen to be referring to a repo using the ssh:// scheme with a non-default port number. Signed-off-by: Dan Bornstein Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index e0135150b1..98a45addf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -764,9 +764,12 @@ 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,