connect: Add the envvar GIT_SSH_VARIANT and ssh.variant config

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index af2ae4cc02af75c5cf9395e228ff8bbc6e390181..b88df57ab6adc4b7af5c1b0ec43262d1ab393768 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1949,6 +1949,17 @@ Environment variable settings always override any matches.  The URLs that are
 matched against are those given directly to Git commands.  This means any URLs
 visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
 
+ssh.variant::
+       Depending on the value of the environment variables `GIT_SSH` or
+       `GIT_SSH_COMMAND`, or the config setting `core.sshCommand`, Git
+       auto-detects whether to adjust its command-line parameters for use
+       with plink or tortoiseplink, as opposed to the default (OpenSSH).
++
+The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this auto-detection;
+valid values are `ssh`, `plink`, `putty` or `tortoiseplink`. Any other value
+will be treated as normal ssh. This setting can be overridden via the
+environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`.
+
 i18n.commitEncoding::
        Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
        does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when