Git with SSH on Windows

Question

Hello all,

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://[email protected]:22/SSH/Home/administrator/myapp.git” “E:\GitTest\myapp”

bash: [email protected]: 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://[email protected]: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

Any help is more than welcome!

Thanks Panagiotis

Answer 1

Is your PATH environment variable referencing your c:\SSH\Bin directory?

Answer 2

you are using a smart quote “ instead of " here:

git.exe clone -v “ssh://
                ^^^ 

Make sure you use the plain-old-double-quote.