Sending environmental variable with git client when using ssh

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I would like to be able to send an environmental variable when invoking, for example git clone over ssh:

git clone ssh://host.example/project

I know that this can be achieved by setting the SendEnv in ~/.ssh/config for host.example. Although I would like to avoid modifying any files. For example, with only ssh we could do:

ssh -o SendEnv=MYVAR server.example.com mycommand

and no file modification is necessary. Is there a similar way to achieve this when using git clone over ssh?

Cheers!

Mark Leighton Fisher · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-11 21:20:47Z

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A Bash shell function can do this:

function e { echo $1; GIT_SSH=$1; export GIT_SSH; }

Substitute whatever Git functionality you need for the "echo $1".

answered Dec 11, 2012 at 21:20

Mark Leighton Fisher

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