[niklasber]

Any benefits with this over running something like this? Other than it being shorter and easier for someone not familiar with console commands?

  ssh -t yourserver.com 'cd /some/dir/;exec /bin/sh'

[ChristianBundy]

Nope, that's actually very close to what it does.

I didn't develop this because the keystrokes were difficult, I just know that both git and SCP support this syntax and couldn't think of any good reason why SSH shouldn't.

[tostada]

Doesn't look like it.