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diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index 2bebd9f49..56be4bcf9 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -1434,7 +1434,10 @@ These environment variables are used by git-annex when set: Handled similarly to the same as described in git(1). The one difference is that git-annex will sometimes pass an additional "-n" parameter to these, as the first parameter, to prevent ssh from - reading from stdin. + reading from stdin. Since that can break existing uses of these + environment variables that don't expect the extra parameter, you will + need to set `GIT_ANNEX_USE_GIT_SSH=1` to make git-annex support + these. Note that setting either of these environment variables prevents git-annex from automatically enabling ssh connection caching |