Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH 06/12] connect: Fix custom ports with plink (Putty's ssh)

From: "Edward Z. Yang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:11:35 -0400

Clifford Caoile wrote:
> Perhaps I have traded one problem for another, because the msysgit
> user still has to be aware of MSYSGIT_REAL_PLINK (at least she doesn't
> have to set it up). And of course, the installer has to be modified to
> accommodate plinkssh and my proposal.

This feels unnecessarily complicated.

What would be cool is if we could just set GIT_SSH to plinkssh 
-path-to-plink "C:\Path\To\plink.exe" (obviously a shorter flag or 
something). Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with Git's current 
command argument handling.