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Add support for includes in SSH profile generator

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#19,555 opened on Nov 13, 2025

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Description

Description of the new feature

SSH profile generator currently doesn't seems to support includes so:

.ssh/config:
Include config.d/*

.ssh/config.d/:
config1
config2
config3

result in no profile being generated.

I do think it is a common was to structure profiles, especially when having many, would be nice for it to work in terminal.

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Research direction
Explore the SSH profile generator code in the repository, understand how it reads config files, and implement support for Include directives. Look for existing parsing logic for SSH config files.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli
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1-2 days
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