Re: Possible to use git over custom ssh libraries?

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:14 AM Stef Bon [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm working on a set of network services using SSH, like SFTP, backup,
fsnotify, (text/video) chat, connection forwarding using my own SSH
implementation. See:

https://github.com/stefbon/OSNS

Now I want to also provide support for browsing remote git
repositories using my ssh libraries, which will provide the transport
layer.

Git doesn't use any SSH libraries directly, as far as I'm aware. It
forks ssh and that does what it does. Git has an
ssh.variant/GIT_SSH_VARIANT[1] toggle can be used to tell it a bit
about how it should expect ssh to behave so it can assemble the right
command line.

That implies you'd need to use your libraries to build at least a
minimal ssh command you could configure Git to use. GIT_SSH[2] can be
used to tell Git where to find the ssh binary.

Is it possible to use git in combination with my own libraries? Or do
I have to use libgit2 for that or something else?

Thanks in advance,

Stef Bon

Hope this helps!
-b

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-sshvariant
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt-codeGITSSHcode