Git relies on the fact that SSH allows you to execute commands on a remote server.
If you run a command like git clone tom@github.com:username/repo, what Git is doing behind the scenes is SSHing to github.com, authenticating as the tom user, and then remotely executing git upload-pack username/repo. Now your client can talk to that process on the remote server by simply reading and writing over the SSH connection.
Of course, allowing arbitrary execution of commands is unsafe, so SSH includes the ability to restrict what commands can be executed. In a very simple case, you can restrict execution to git-shell which is included with Git. All this script does is check the command that you’re trying to execute and ensure that it’s one of git upload-pack, git receive-pack, or git upload-archive.
So the syntax is:
ssh git@<route> <command> <arg>
For instance:
$ ssh git@github.com "git-upload-pack username/repo.git"
$ ssh git@github.com "git-receive-pack username/repo.git"
So to answer to your question, you can't edit the code over ssh, but you can upload your changes if you know the right syntax.
Debugging
If you would like to trace which commands are sent to the git server, follow your git command by GIT_TRACE=1 i.e.:
GIT_TRACE=1 git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git
or (Git 2.3.0+):
GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vv" git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git
Or for the hardcode mode, use strace like:
strace -f -s200 -e execve git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git
Links
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Best Answer
There is no keyboard shortcut to automatically indent a block of code.
You will either have to find a browser extension, like a userscript, or write one yourself. Or just add the four leading spaces as you would now.
You can see a list of current GitHub keyboard shortcuts by Shift + ? and clicking "See all" when on any GitHub page.