The git (starting with git version 2.10) configuration core.sshCommand
allow to pass arbitrary options to the SSH command, used on git pull
, git fetch
, and git push
.
Using this configuration, we can pass a custom path to a ssh key, as well as a know_host file and or ssh .config
file.
This is usefull in situations where you can run git commands from the shell, but do not have root access, like a exec()
command executed from a PHP page.
[core]
sshCommand = "ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=[ABSOLUTE PATH TO FILE]/know_hosts -i [ABSOLUTE PATH TO FILE]/id_rsa_custom_key -F /dev/null"