Need a way to specify ssh connections options similar to "-e" for rsync

[Tom Haddon]

The particular use case is if you're running bzr commands as a user that has it's home directory on a tmp filesystem, which is common for role accounts. In rsync you could do rsync -e "ssh -i identityfile", for example. If there was a similar option in bzr that'd fix the issue.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Can't you set that in '.ssh/config' ?
I believe there is 'export BZR_SSH=/my/custom/path/ssh' which I think would let you export a custom shell script. I don't think it handles arguments, possibly because we aren't sure what is path and what is args?

You might try it and report back whether "export BZR_SSH=ssh -i identifyfile" works.