Subject: Re: Calling ssh from git-gui

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:25:41 -0700

Thomas Rast <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but
> > maybe that's what we have to do.  Be nice though if the window only
> > was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard
> > to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because
> > the network is a 2400 baud modem".
> 
> You can set BatchMode (ssh_config(5)) to at least prevent it from
> hanging, can't you?

True, but this is OpenSSH specific, and has to be done on the
command line, which git-gui has no control over.

Maybe git fetch and push can check for a tty on fd 0 and enable
try to enable batch mode if fd 0 isn't a tty?

-- 
Shawn.