From e340b777916f48898e15597ce6bdf9be7ba6149d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:20:51 -0400 Subject: devblog --- doc/devblog/day_452__GIT_SSH.mdwn | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_452__GIT_SSH.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_452__GIT_SSH.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_452__GIT_SSH.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7ba94dff8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_452__GIT_SSH.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Found a bug in git-annex-shell where verbose messages would sometimes make +it output things git-annex didn't expect. + +While fixing that, I wanted to add a test case, but the test suite actually +does not test git-annex-shell at all. It would need to ssh, which test +suites should not do. So, I took a detour.. + +Support for `GIT_SSH` and `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` has been requested before for +various reasons. So I implemented that, which took 4 hours. (With one +little possible compatability caveat, since git-annex needs to pass the -n +parameter to ssh sometimes, and git's interface doesn't allow for such a +parameter.) + +Now the test suite can use those environment variables to make mock ssh +remotes be accessed using local `sh` instead of `ssh`. + +Today's work was sponsored by Trenton Cronholm on Patreon. -- cgit v1.2.3