Improved ssh interaction is as simple as downloading and installing tortoiseplink. It seems to be working from commandline and the git for windows gui, but now i want to use tortoisegit. Tortoiseplink a standalone packaging of puttys plink. Open the contextmenu and navigate tortoisegit settings in the now opened window navigate to git remote set the path to your putty key in the corresponding input box. Tortoisegit uses a puttylike ssh client by default but apparently github only accepts open ssh, and i dont really know how to proceed. At an empty directory, just use the explorer context menu and select git clone the clone dialog will show. Contribute to tmrowcobrick development by creating an account on github. This operation is used to get a full copy of a remote repository. Download tortoisegit windows shell interface to git. Set up git on windows with tortoisegit assembla help center.
You can specify the key location for tortoisegit the following way. To provide an improved experience to any git gui using the commandline tools, this packaging of tortoisegits customized plink provides a simple way to install tortoiseplink without the full tortoisegit package. Create your free github account today to subscribe to this repository for new releases and build software alongside 40 million developers. If you only installed git on windows and are not using tortoisegit, jump to the git bash ssh keys section. I have just installed git for windows, and created my ssh key using ssh through cygwin. Pillar is an interface for salt designed to offer global values that can be distributed to minions. Tortoisegit provides overlay icons showing the file status, a powerful context menu for git and much more. Pillar data is managed in a similar way as the salt state tree. Configure tortoisegit client to work with ssh keys on. This is mostly optional if youre using cmder, but if you want more general support for git in powershell. If you installed tortoisegit, use the method directly below.
This section talks about how to clone a git repository from an existing repository. Or, the powershell way run from an elevated powershell prompt. Or, with chocolatey which may be a patch or two behind the main site, and will always install the shell extension. Before reporting an issue, please check that your problem isnt fixed in.