oh, karlo

Git, [for] Windows, and SSH

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To my astonishment, I spent almost 2 hours solving this. I have Git for Windows from scoop and moved to using ssh for Git since CredentialHelper selector keeps popping up whenever I interact with the remote and won’t remember the “Always use this from now on” setting (why put it if it doesn’t work?)

So the key gets loaded in ssh-agent but git won’t fetch it. Then I find out that Git for Windows bundles it’s own ssh binary! For context, Windows has included OpenSSH since Windows 10 1803.[1] What a waste of time. Thanks, Stack Overflow.

So run this:

 git config --global core.sshCommand C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe

Update:

It started working somehow.

Ran

git credential-manager configure
git credential-manager diagnose

And it credential.helper suddenly pointed to the absolute path of git-credential-manager.

git config --global credential.helper manager
# warning: credential.helper has multiple values
# error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value
#       Use a regexp, --add or --replace-all to change credential.helper.
git config --global credential.helper
# C:/ProgramData/scoop/apps/git/2.47.1.2/mingw64/bin/git-credential-manager.exe

I changed it to point to scoop git’s current symlink.

.gitconfig

[credential]
    helper =  C:/ProgramData/scoop/apps/git/current/mingw64/bin/git-credential-manager.exe
  1. Durr, Yosef (7 March 2018). “What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803”. Windows Command Line Tools For Developers.
  2. [“How to run ssh-add on Windows?“](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18683092/how-to-run-ssh-add-on-windows/68386656#comment133124115_68386656](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18683092/how-to-run-ssh-add-on-windows/68386656#comment133124115_68386656) Stack Overflow.
  3. “Git does not use SSH key (Windows).” Stack Overflow.

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