Andreas Jochens [off-list ref] writes:
This is a nice feature, of course. But I still have to edit a separate
config file. In some cases (e.g. scripts using ad hoc port forwarding) it
would be much easier if the non-standard port and maybe some other
options could be specified directly on the git command line or
Having something on the command line to make it easy to override
one-shot you might be able to talk me into, but not in a config
file for git; there is a standard place to hold ssh
configuration already.