Re: Default ssh command

[Aaron Hall <aaronchallmba@gmail.com>]

> Do you maybe have RequestTTY set in some SSH configuration file, like
> ~/.ssh/config?  You can also run "ssh -vvv HOSTNAME" to see if there are
> any config files.

That's it! Not sure why I put a wildcard RequestTTY force... I was probably
just going through the man page and putting down things that looked like
were what I wanted...

My urgency on this issue is gone. But unless git expects escape codes,
perhaps it still should set them to none.

> The problem is that on some systems "ssh" is something other than
> OpenSSH and we will likely break those systems.  That doesn't mean we
> can't do it if it's necessary, but it does mean that if this is a
> configuration issue, it would be better to fix the configuration if we
> can rather than potentially break systems needlessly.

I would expect it would be a compatible change but I don't have time
to research it.

> This problem will also occur for tools like rsync and various other
> programs which expect the standard behavior for the ssh binary, so
> making a change here in Git is also not the right place if we can avoid
> it.

To me, it's weird that an improperly configured tool breaks another
tool, and it seems that we could be more robust to that sort of
problem without breaking anyone, but as you say we would need to
verify we're not breaking anyone.

I suggest keeping this open as an issue, but that's up to you all.