[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] sftp: support reading config from ~/.ssh/config

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 11.03.2015, at 11:15, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> I firmly believe in the following principles:
> 
> 1. If the user made an explicit choice, the application must obey, even if
>   the choice seems stupid.
> 
>   In the case of SSH: compression is disabled by default, so enabling it is
>   an explicit choice.

It's a bit more complex here.
1) it is a choice made for ssh, not for FFmpeg and not even for sftp
2) we previously did not respect that choice, thus it is a behaviour change

I have no strong feelings about it, but you did ask if this change might have undesireable or unexpected consequences...