How to let TortoiseHg (Mercurial) on Windows use the Private Key file generated (by Puttygen)?

mercurial ssh tortoisehg public-key
nonopolarity picture nonopolarity · Jun 1, 2010 · Viewed 29.1k times · Source

I have used Puttygen to create a public and a private key, and then is ready to let TortoiseHg on Windows 7 do a clone by going to 

ssh://[email protected]/somecode

but there seems to be no where to add the private key to TortoiseHg? (or even just the mercurial command line)

The file is already some where on hard disk as somefile.ppk Does someone know how to add it?

Answer

David Tischler picture David Tischler · Jun 1, 2010

Either add the following to the [ui]-section of the mercurial.ini in your home directory (assuming your key is in "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk"):

[ui]
ssh = tortoiseplink.exe -ssh -i "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk"

or use Pageant, found in the TortoiseHg installation path (e.g. C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\Pageant.exe). Start it, double click the taskbar-icon that appears, and add the .ppk-file.

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