Re: Possible to use git over custom ssh libraries?

[Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:14 AM Stef Bon <stefbon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a set of network services using SSH, like SFTP, backup,
> fsnotify, (text/video) chat, connection forwarding using my own SSH
> implementation. See:
>
> https://github.com/stefbon/OSNS
>
> Now I want to also provide support for browsing remote git
> repositories using my ssh libraries, which will provide the transport
> layer.

Git doesn't use any SSH libraries directly, as far as I'm aware. It
forks ssh and that does what it does. Git has an
ssh.variant/GIT_SSH_VARIANT[1] toggle can be used to tell it a bit
about how it should expect ssh to behave so it can assemble the right
command line.

That implies you'd need to use your libraries to build at least a
minimal ssh command you could configure Git to use. GIT_SSH[2] can be
used to tell Git where to find the ssh binary.

>
> Is it possible to use git in combination with my own libraries? Or do
> I have to use libgit2 for that or something else?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stef Bon

Hope this helps!
-b

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-sshvariant
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt-codeGITSSHcode