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Bug 342860

Summary:	Provide a programmatic way to enforce use of an external ssh executable
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bentmann, matthias.sohn
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Benjamin Bentmann

2011-04-14 11:43:31 EDT

Regarding this code snippet from TransportGitSsh

  private static boolean useExtConnection() {
    return SystemReader.getInstance().getenv("GIT_SSH") != null;
  }

It would be nice if there was a way to enforce use of some ssh executable from within the already running JVM. Right now, this requires to install a new SystemReader which overlays the desired GIT_SSH value and otherwise delegates to the original SystemReader.