From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: add ssh -J support to commands which use network
To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:33:54 +0100

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:31:32PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:27:53PM +0000, Lucas Gabriel Vuotto wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:13:59PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > Add a -J option to got clone, fetch, send, as well as cvg clone,
> > > update, commit. This allows ad-hoc use of SSH jumphosts without
> > > having to create entries in ~/.ssh/config.
> > > 
> > > For example, I found this useful when I wanted to fetch from a
> > > IPv6-only system while borrowing an IPv4-only wifi connection.
> > > 
> > > ok?
> > 
> > I don't know about the potential complexity, but wouldn't it be better
> > to have an ssh_opts in got.conf instead? Having a dedicated flag for
> > ProxyJump feels off for me.
> 
> But that would involve editing a configuration file, too. The point
> is avoid that overhead when reaching the configured remote without
> a jumphost or vpn or whatever is impossible.

And adding ssh_opts to got.conf would be no different to the current
way of setting per-remote ssh options, which is to add a Host entry
to ~/.ssh/config with whatever options are requried and using that
Host entry as the server URL.