[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2017-03-21T17:38:57Z" content=""" You can't accomplish this with `remote..annex-ssh-options`, since it is not exposed to the shell, and the parser just breaks it up into words. A smarter parser would be needed. Or you could configure it in ~/.ssh/config, or perhaps make a ssh config file elsewhere and use annex-ssh-options to pass -F to ssh to make it use this other config file. Now that git-annex supports `GIT_SSH_COMMAND`, which is exposed to the shell, you should be able to accomplish it that way. I don't know if that would work in your use case, since the environment variable affects all ssh remotes, not just one. """]]