Git is failing to push in puttycyg because of SSH error

Question

I've been using puttycyg as a Cygwin terminal for my rails development. I've set up a git repository on a project management website and now I want to push my code to it with the following command:

git push origin master

I'm getting the following error:

error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork

I know ssh is used for authentication but I don't know if I need to set anything up to use it.

Answer 1

My bet is you need to install OpenSSH. Try reading OpenSSH and PuTTY. It's a decent guide to installing / configuring it for a Windows enviornment and setting up SSH keys, something you'll need with git.

Answer 2

The problems was that I didn't have SSH installed with Cygwin. I ran the Cygwin setup.exe file again and when asked to select packages I searched for ssh and checked all I found:

Once this was done I was getting authentication errors so I used the ssh-keygen command to generate the required keys, instructions on how do this.