How to install/setup TortoiseGit to work with GitHub

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Mr. Boy picture Mr. Boy · Apr 19, 2012 · Viewed 53.3k times · Source

I have just installed Git For Windows, and created my SSH key using SSH through Cygwin. It seems to be working from command-line and the Git For Windows GUI, but now I want to use TortoiseGit. TortoiseGit uses a Putty-like SSH client by default but apparently GitHub only accepts (open)SSH, and I don't really know how to proceed. I will be doing a clean TortoiseGit install, I already have Cygwin and Git for Windows installed.

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zcrar70 picture zcrar70 · Jun 28, 2012

For anyone looking to change an existing TortoiseGit installation to use PuTTY rather than OpenSSH, simply right-click, -> TortoiseGit -> Settings -> Network, then change 'ssh.exe' to 'tortoiseplink.exe'. From then on, doing a push/pull should be using Pageant (and any keys you have set up in there) if you also have that running.

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