Git with SSH on Windows

Question

I ve went through the excellent guide provided by Tim Davis which is about configuring Git to work with SSH under Windows in order to produce a Git Server in order to have a main place for my DVCS    I am in the process of creating a clone for my project  I   ve went through all the steps till this point  but I keep getting this from TortoiseGit   git exe clone -v    ssh   Administrator 127 0 0 1 22 SSH Home administrator myapp git       E  GitTest myapp     bash  Administrator 127 0 0 1  command not found Initialized empty Git repository in E  GitTest myapp  git  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly Success   and nothing gets cloned   BTW  The TortoisePLink comes up just before this message appears and asks me     login as       I thought that this info is given in the command  i e  Administrator blahblah   My home variable is set to the correct place  From a Git Bash shell   echo  HOME  c SSH home Administrator   I   ve also tried using Putty   s plink instead of TortoisePLink  in both Git   s and TortoiseGit   s installation   This time the error was narrowed down to   git exe clone -v    ssh   Administrator 127 0 0 1 22 c  SSH Home administrator myapp git       E  GitTest myapp     Initialized empty Git repository in E  GitTest myapp  git  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly

User · Answer

Since this keeps coming up in search results for making git and github work with SSH on Windows (and because I didn't need anything from the guides above), I'm adding the following, simple solution.

(Microsoft says they are working on adding SSH to Visual Studio, and GitHub for Windows still doesn't support SSH...)

1. I installed "git for Windows" (which includes ssh and a bash shell)

https://git-scm.com/download/win

2. From the included bash shell (which, for me, was installed at: C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe)

cd to the root level of where you want your repo saved (something like: C:\code\github\), and

Type:

eval $(ssh-agent -s) && ssh-add "C:\Users\YOURNAMEHERE\.ssh\github_rsa"

3. Type: (the SSH link from the repo)

git clone [email protected]:RepoName/Project.git

User · Answer

I fought with this problem for a few hours before stumbling on the obvious answer  The problem I had was I was using different ssh implementations between when I generated my keys and when I used git   I used ssh-keygen from the command prompt to generate my keys and but when I tried  git clone ssh        I got the same results as you  a prompt for the password and the message  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly    Determine which ssh windows is using by executing the Windows  where  command   C  where ssh C  Program Files  x86  Git bin ssh exe   The second line tells you which exact program will be executed   Next you need to determine which ssh that git is using  Find this by   C  set GIT SSH GIT SSH C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin TortoisePlink exe   And now you see the problem   To correct this simply execute   C  set GIT SSH C  Program Files  x86  Git bin ssh exe   To check if changes are applied   C  set GIT SSH GIT SSH C  Program Files  x86  Git bin ssh exe   Now git will be able to use the keys that you generated earlier   This fix is so far only for the current window  To fix it completely you need to change your environment variable    Open Windows explorer Right-click Computer and select Properties Click Advanced System Settings link on the left Click the Environment Variables    button In the system variables section select the GIT SSH variable and press the Edit    button Update the variable value  Press OK to close all windows   Now any future command windows you open will have the correct settings   Hope this helps

User · Answer

I was trying to solve my issue with some of the answers above and for some reason it didn t work  I did switch to use the git extensions and this are the steps I did follow    I went to Tools - gt  Settings - gt  SSH - gt  Other ssh client Set this value to C  Program Files Git usr bin ssh exe Apply    I guess that this steps are just the same explained above  The only difference is that I used the Git Extensions User Interface instead of the terminal  Hope this help

User · Answer

I ve found my ssh exe  in  C  Program Files Git usr bin  directory

User · Answer

you are using a smart quote     instead of   here   git exe clone -v    ssh                           Make sure you use the plain-old-double-quote

User · Answer

If Git for windows is installed  run Git Bash shell     bash   You can run ssh from within Bash shell  Bash is aware of the path of ssh   To know the exact path of ssh  run  where  command in Bash shell       where ssh   you get     c  Program Files Git usr bin ssh exe

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