Use GIT with SSH on Windows

To connect git remotes using ssh url is sometime tricky in windows machines. Try the following steps to use git with ssh on windows

• Download and Install latest Putty Executables
• Run Pageant and add private keys
  • run pageant. It will start minimized on the task bar.
  • Double-click the pageant icon the the task bar.
  • add the private keys, whose public part is uploaded to github/gitlab
  • Need to run the pageant and add keys after every restart

Use puttygen.exe to generate the ssh key-pair
Pageant does not accepts the openssh private key.
puttygen.exe can be used to convert the private key generated from ssh-keygen to PKCS format

• set environment variable GIT_SSH=C:\Windows\plink.exe
• To trust the remote host, run plink.exe -agent -v git@github.com one-time for each host

You are all set to clone a repo from github using ssh url. Example - git clone git@github.com:somod-dev/somod.git