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SSH Config parsing is very limited #12

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@dimonomid

UPD 2025-06-09: now that we have support for external ssh binary, this one should be a lot less of an issue: just run nerdlog with --set 'transport=ssh-bin', and it'll use the external binary which will utiilze all your configs properly.

The only remaining thing is that, because Include is not supported as mentioned below, glob expansion on Nerdlog side might not work as you expect, but that one should be relatively easy to address.

I'll keep the original text below as it was:


Nerdlog uses https://github.com/kevinburke/ssh_config to parse ssh config, and that library unfortunately has some major limitations; the two biggest ones are:

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