Re: [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true

2015-04-23 Thread Patrick Sharp
instructions on what to do if we had been using putty, but not instructions on unexpected behavior if using GIT_SHH while NOT using putty. On Apr 23, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Torsten Bögershausen tbo...@web.de wrote: On 04/22/2015 09:12 PM, Patrick Sharp wrote: Johannes, You’re correct, looking back

[BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true

2015-04-22 Thread Patrick Sharp
The plink string detection in GIT_SSH for setting putty to true is very broad. If plink is anywhere in the path to the shell file then putty gets set to true and ssh will fail trying to parse -batch as the hostname. Wouldn’t searching for plink.exe be better?-- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [BUG] having 'plink' anywhere in the GIT_SSH environment variables sets putty = true

2015-04-22 Thread Patrick Sharp
johannes.schinde...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Patrick, On 2015-04-22 16:36, Patrick Sharp wrote: The plink string detection in GIT_SSH for setting putty to true is very broad. Wow. You probably wanted to state that you are using Windows, downloaded Git from [link here], that you are using [version