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Bug 335897

Summary:	egit doesn't understand host aliases from /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Sergey Ilinykh <rion4ik>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Philipp Thun <philipp.thun>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	angvoz.dev, luc, stefan.lay
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Sergey Ilinykh

2011-01-31 15:30:14 EST

I have alias in ssh config like

Host mygithost
   Hostname real.host.name
   Port 4321

when i'm trying to specify git uri something like
ssh://git@mygithost:myrepo.git

it says that mygithost is unknown host, but this works fine with native git command line.

Comment 1 Philipp Thun

2011-02-28 11:53:28 EST

I have tried this and it worked for me...

First, I have create a "config" file with the following content:
---
Host eclipse
	Hostname egit.eclipse.org
	Port 29418
---

In Eclipse, I have ensured that the "SSH2 home" is set to the correct directory (where I put the config file).

I have then clicked on "Clone a Git Repository..." from within the "Git Repositories" view in Eclipse and entered the following URI: ssh://<my_user>@eclipse/jgit.git

Clicking "Next" and "Finish" cloned JGit to my local machine.

Could you please check your SSH2 and proxy preferences in Eclipse?

Comment 2 Sergey Ilinykh

2011-02-28 12:25:50 EST

its set to /home/mylogin/.ssh

does this mean eclipse/egit uses either user specific config or global one but never both?

Comment 3 luc

2011-04-06 08:47:41 EDT

I experienced the same problem.
I had to duplicate the entry in my ~/.ssh/config file, something like:

Host www.example.domain
  Hostname www.example.domain
  ProxyCommand ...
  ...

Host forge
  Hostname www.example.domain
  Proxycommand ...
  ...

This is really inconvenient

Comment 4 Philipp Thun

2011-12-09 11:58:05 EST

Uploaded a proposal to Gerrit: http://egit.eclipse.org/r/4775

Comment 5 Andrew Gvozdev

2011-12-09 12:13:47 EST

Any chance it could be pulling aliases from Cygwin on Windows?