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diff --git a/doc/bugs/annex-rsync-options_shell-split_carelessly.mdwn b/doc/bugs/annex-rsync-options_shell-split_carelessly.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c8eeb7160 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/annex-rsync-options_shell-split_carelessly.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +with rsync, it is sometimes the case that one needs to specify ssh options -- typical examples from the rsync man page are `rsync -e 'ssh -p 2234'`. as git-annex does the shell splitting of the arguments in `annex-rsync-options` (see [[special remotes/rsync]]) itself by looking for whitespace, these options can't be passed directly. (`annex-rsync-options = -e 'ssh -p 2234'` gets split to `["rsync", "-e", "'ssh", "-p", "2234'"]` instead of `["rsync", "-e", "ssh -p 2234"]`). + +git-annex should respect shell splitting rules when looking at annex-rsync-options. (i suppose there is a haskell library or module for that; in python, we have the `shlex` module for that). + +## workaround + +put this in .git/ssh and mark it as executable: + + #!/bin/sh + exec ssh -p 2234 $@ + +put this in your git annex config in the particular remote's section: + + annex-rsync-options = -e /local/path/to/your/repo/.git/ssh + +(typical bug report information: observed with git-annex 3.20121127 on debian) |