RE: [BUG] GIT_SSH_COMMAND is not being decomposed

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On April 13, 2019 16:40, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13 2019, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> 
> > I am encountering a problem on one of our NonStop platform variants
> > where the GIT_SSH_COMMAND string is not being broken into constituent
> > parts. This is causing SSH to not run properly. As background, SSH is
> > not in a standard location and has non-standard required arguments.
> > This also occurs with core.sshCommand. The situation is:
> >
> > git config --global core.sshCommand '/G/system/zssh/sshossz5 -Q'
> >
> > which correctly sets .gitconfig as:
> >
> > [core]
> >         sshCommand = /G/system/zssh/sshossz5 -Q
> >
> > When git is run with GIT_TRACE=true GIT_PACKET_TRACE=true git fetch
> >
> > We get the partial trace:
> > 14:19:56.027088 trace: built-in: git fetch
> > 14:19:56.029895 trace: run_command: '/G/system/zssh/sshossz5 -Q' -G
> > user@host
> >
> > The same trace on our systems that actually do work results in:
> > 14:19:56.029895 trace: run_command: '/G/system/zssh/sshossz5' '-Q' -G
> > user@host
> >
> > I need help resolving why this is happening (as in where to look and
> > debug the situation).
> 
> This doesn't seem to be documented *explicitly* (except between the lines &
> inferred), but it's only supported to pass a *command* there, i.e. the path of
> the ssh binary. See the code around get_ssh_command() in connect.c. The
> whole env/config value we look up gets passed as one.
> 
> So if you need arguments you need to create a wrapper script and set ssh
> command to that script.

Thanks. I didn't know that, because this technique worked for years on the older platform variant. My wrapper works fine on the newer system.

With appreciation,
Randall