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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advise request on adding a new SSH variant
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 11:49:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bde927d-19da-a350-825b-b8bf71d19269@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlf8u57jl.fsf@gitster.g>

On 05/05/2021 01:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
>
>> I was also thinking that the lack of replies maybe links to the "Pain
>> points in Git's patch flow" thread <YHaIBvl6Mf7ztJB3@google.com> whereby
>> it's all about the proposed patch, rather than thoughts about a
>> potential patch.
>> (Sort of like the philosophy of science [method] that ignores opinion,
>> and demands evidence)
> Actually, the initial message on this matter from Randall came in
> the patch form <011e01d73dd0$ec141530$c43c3f90$@nexbridge.com>, so
> if it were truly "it's all about the proposed patch, rather than
> thoughts about a potential patch", it would have gained much more
> responses.

I'd missed the patches (at the time) as my mail client hadn't grouped
them together, so that mail looked a bit lonely, hence my reply ;-)
I saw a later note by Randall that send-email hadn't worked on his
system which gave rise to the patches being 'spread about'.
>
> Other than I didn't have time, the reason I didn't respond was that
> the concept and notation used there were a bit too foreign to me to
> decide from where to start asking questions.  It wasn't clear what
> '$ZSSHX' meant (is it the value of an environment variable whose
> name is ZSSHX, or is it literally a name with dollar in it and is
> the issue being addressed that it is too cumbersome to quote it
> properly in value of the GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable?) for
> example.  And after reading the message you are responding to twice,
> I do not quite get what problem we are trying to solve.  Especially
> since
>
>     No, it would be GIT_SSH_COMMAND='/G/system/zssh/sshoss -Z -Q -S
>     $ZSSH0' and that does not work correctly in the current git code
>     base.
>
> in <012601d73ddf$3d0cf660$b726e320$@nexbridge.com> sounded like we
> have a fairly clearly demonstratable problem (i.e. the handling of
> the command line given via GIT_SSH_COMMAND is somehow broken). The
> details of "does not work correctly in the current code base" is not
> yet disclosed but it sounded like it would be possible to tease it
> out and solve the issue in a more direct way.  But yet the solution
> presented in the three-patch series looked like it was sidestepping
> the entire issue and adding a special case for NonStop without
> having to touch GIT_SSH_COMMAND at all (presumably leaving it still
> "broken").
I didn't understand all that either. I'd just spotted the other ssh
variants being common on Windows.. A classic curse of knowledge (or lack
of it) problem.

Philip

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-05 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-26 15:08 Advise request on adding a new SSH variant Randall S. Becker
2021-05-04 14:45 ` Philip Oakley
2021-05-04 15:25   ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-05  0:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05  2:04     ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-05 10:49     ` Philip Oakley [this message]

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