[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-09-21T16:14:03Z" content=""" The assistant does not normally do this when you merely start it up. It does it when you configure a ssh remote, when it needs to modify that file. It might also modify the file on startup if it detects a configuration that an old version of the assistant put in that needs to be fixed up. Is the trailing whitespace you speak of just a newline added after the existing host block, or something else? Your "..." is not very clear. Fixed symlink issue in git. """]]