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Cannot push with an ssh alias - failed to resolve address

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#496 opened on Jan 20, 2021

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Description

Hi,

Thank you so much for gitui. I cannot push from gitui, always getting the error -

[ERROR] push error: git error:failed to resolve address for github.com-foo: Name or service not known; class=Net (12)

But git push works fine from the cmdline. I have in my .ssh/config the alias -

Host github.com-foo HostName github.com

Is there a way around this ?

I am using version gitui v0.11.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

thx, -m

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Research direction
Investigate how gitui resolves SSH hostnames. Look at the SSH configuration parsing in the codebase, likely in src/ssh.rs or similar. Compare with manual git behavior. Check if gitui uses the ssh2 crate or similar, and whether it respects ~/.ssh/config. Possibly related to environment variables or subprocess execution.