I can see the benefit of using plink for people who already use PuTTY, but I do not like the idea too much to bundle the installer with an "external" tool (which needs being watched and updated over time).
So my suggestion would be to make the installer use an existing / user provided plink.exe. The installer should display this option, which, if selected, displays a text field to hold the path to plink.exe. The text field could default to any auto-detected PuTTY installation, or be empty otherwise. I can do this if you're OK with my suggestion. -- Sebastian > -----Original Message----- > From: Johannes Schindelin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 13:23 > To: [email protected]; Schuberth, Sebastian > Subject: Putty option in the installer? > > Hi, > > seems like somebody wants to annoy me on the issue tracker, > rather than do the proper thing, namely _request_ -- > _politely_ -- on the _list_... > > Anyway, here it goes: Some people prefer plink.exe to > ssh.exe. Maybe we can ship plink.exe and have an option to > use that by default in the Git installer? > > Note: I am totally opposed to changing the default in > msysGit, as this would annoy _only_ those who have done > actual work on msysGit. And I am mightily annoyed by people > who misbehave [*1*] > > This blog has an entry that is actually helpful with regard > to setting up > plink.exe: > > http://richfrog.curzons.net/2008/05/git-with-putty-on-windows.html > > And he even refers to the mailing list! > > Ciao, > Dscho > > *1* If anybody wondered why I have been particularly inactive > on msysGit, the reason is this Stephen Waits guy, who > insulted me personally after I told him how rude he was (he > even bounces my mail, would you believe?). > I decided that it is time to stay away from such abusers, and > that means staying away from Windows people, which in turn > means to stay away from msysGit. > >
