Re: Calling ssh from git-gui

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

  I'm quite at loss by now searching for a reasonable solution for
invoking ssh (either directly or through git fetch/git push) from
git-gui, which is very problematic right now - doubly so when
considering both UNIX and Win32.

  There are several scenarios to consider:

  (i) SSH to known host with key managed by a running agent.
  (ii) SSH to host without agent running or without keys set up.
  (iii) SSH to unknown host (unregistered fingerprint).

  Currently, (i) is the only scenario git-gui can handle, [...]

  Handling (ii) and (iii) unfortunately turned out to be very tricky.

And that is why it doesn't handle (ii) or (iii) at the present time,
and unless I am given a nice patch series for any git-gui related
parts of this, why it will continue to remain that way for quite
some time.

Its annoying, and people complain about it, but I know of no good
solution here, and neither it seems does anyone else.  :-|

At prior day-job I had a customized git-gui starting an rxvt on
Cygwin to run some in-house command line scripts, which in turn
called git fetch and git push.  These worked just fine obviously in
an rxvt, it was a full tty that SSH could interact with the user on.

Damn annoying for git-gui to be invoking a new terminal window, but
maybe that's what we have to do.  Be nice though if the window only
was opened because we couldn't do "git ls-remote url" but its hard
to tell "hanging because SSH needs the user" and "hanging because
the network is a 2400 baud modem".

-- 
Shawn.