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Bug 355744

Summary:	Allow GIT_SSH to be configured from Git preferences
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Alex Blewitt

2011-08-24 12:32:11 EDT

It would be good to have a preference to configure the value of the GIT_SSH variable from within the Eclipse preferences structure. This value, if set, could persist the setting in GIT_SSH such that the JGit client, when performing a Git connection, could use an externally configured SSH client instead, which might be already configured with agent authentication and/or other auth mechanisms that are not supported by JGit. This might be a workaround for the cotinuous prompting of passwords when SSH key authentication is not used, if the agent can remember (or acquire) such passwords/keys automatically.

The preference would edit an Eclipse-persisted setting, which if set, would automatically set the GIT_SSH environment variable at startup. (If it is not set, which would be the default, the action would be to do nothing.)