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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2015-04-06T21:15:46Z"
+ content="""
+This has nothing to do with git-annex-shell or anything server-side. We can
+see this in the error messages; the error comes from client-side git-annex
+and not from git-annex-shell at all.
+
+For annex.sshcaching to work, git-annex has to set GIT_SSH=git-annex, and
+then git calls it with the name of the hostname to ssh to.
+
+So, your client-side git-annex is new enough to do sshcaching on sync, but
+then when git runs $GIT_SSH, the git-annex program it then runs seems
+to be an older version of git-annex. Which does not appreciate being called
+as if it is ssh.
+
+Fix this version confusion and your problem will be solved. Maybe
+have an older version of git-annex somewhere in PATH where git finds it.
+Or, maybe you have a ~/.config/git-annex/program file that points to some
+older installation of git-annex.
+
+(It might also help to upgrade to a current version, ideally before filing
+a bug report; it's quite possible some change has been made that will
+make whatever your setup is work.)
+"""]]