[PATCH]: Give example of SVN_SSH usage

Eric Hanchrow offby1 at blarg.net
Wed Sep 27 21:08:43 CDT 2006



[[[ * src/en/book/ch06.xml
(svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshauth): Give an example for SVN_SSH
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Index: ch06.xml
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--- ch06.xml	(revision 2446)
+++ ch06.xml	(working copy)
@@ -865,7 +865,10 @@
       <para>Second, it shows how to define a custom environment
         variable that can override the name of the tunneling program.
         Setting the <literal>SVN_SSH</literal> environment variable is
-        a convenient way to override the default SSH tunnel agent.
+        a convenient way to override the default SSH tunnel agent
+        -- for example, to specify a particular private key file to use,
+        set it to a string like <literal>ssh -i
+        /path/to/private/key/file</literal>.
         But if you need to have several different overrides for
         different servers, each perhaps contacting a different port or
         passing a different set of options to SSH, you can use the

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