From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: add ssh -J support to commands which use network
To: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:22:21 +0100

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> > provided the option letters don't overlap.
> > Other useful options might be: -4, -6, -f, -F, -I, -i, -K, -S
> > Except for -f used by 'git send', all of these options could still be
> > allocated to got clone/fetch/send. I guess we can live without ssh -f?
> 
> not sure how many of these are actually useful (thinking in particular
> of [fIiKS].)  folks can use custom configuration in their ~/.ssh/config
> for them.  I might be convinced about -F, in some situations I've used
> an alternate configuration file and that could indeed be handy as well.
> my two cents :)

Yes, -F could be useful, in particular for scripting. This would
give scripts direct control over which ssh options will be used.