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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+git uses environment variable GIT_SSH to determine SSH client.
+
+I set it to plink.exe because I extensively use pageant infrastructure and do NOT want to have 2 systems lying around.
+
+Unfortunately git-annex seems to ignore that.
+
+Even worse, it results in unpredicted behavior because the git part works (e.g. clone) whereas annex/rsync does not resulting in half-ok repositories without meaningful error messages.
+
+It only becomes evident when ssh.exe in the git repository is deleted.
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+Set %GIT_SSH% and remove ssh.exe
+
+You will get
+
+     git-annex: ssh: createProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory)
+     failed
+     git-annex: drop: 1 failed
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+Windows 8,
+
+     $ git annex version
+     git-annex version: 5.20140411-gda795e0
+     build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
+     key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL
+     remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav tahoe glacier hook external
+     local repository version: 5
+     supported repository version: 5
+     upgrade supported from repository versions: 2 3 4
+
+
+### Please provide any additional information below.
+
+
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="108.236.230.124"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2014-05-16T16:42:41Z"
+ content="""
+This is good spotting of a git configuration that git-annex does not support.
+
+However, I doubt that even if I made it use `GIT_SSH`, it would be useful. git-annex uses several features that are probably unique to openssh, including connection caching. While you could disable annex.sshcaching and perhaps get a different ssh to work, it would be much slower.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="divB"
+ ip="171.67.172.81"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2014-05-17T23:58:19Z"
+ content="""
+Hi Joey,
+
+Thanks for your answer. In my opinion, this would be an important requirement for various reasons:
+
+1.) It is very confusing and results in unpredictable errors. I spent days in finding out what caused all the weird stuff that happened. Even if it is not supported, an error message or at least warning should be issued.
+
+2.) At least in Windows, plink.exe is the quasi-standard SSH client. All SW I am aware of supports at least plink.exe as alternative to openssh (SVN, git, unison, ...). Even within cygwin I often use plink for X11 forwarding etc. If features like SSH caching do not work with that it's totally fine.
+
+3.) Even for a unix environment, it is critical to be able to use a wrapper (or at least to configure SSH parameters). In my opinion, this should and must work consistently (git, git-annex and rsync). For example what if I have a dedicated public key for a repository and to not want to use %HOME%\.ssh\id_rsa ?
+For unison, I use a wrapper my_ssh.cmd which wraps specialized parameters (in particular SSH key, port) with plink.exe to ssh.exe's interface. Similarly, I might be interested in disabling agent functionality and use GSSAPI etc. etc.
+
+A little bit OT now: I already wondered if and how inefficient git-annex is in this regard. For example, if I sync content, it seems that ssh opens a new connection for each file! (at least each file results in a signing request in my agent). This happens even if I use ssh.exe. Is there anything wrong?
+
+Thanks
+
+"""]]