Thanks for the info Chris.  How is the Git user experience on Windows coming
along?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just wanted to follow-up that I was able to finally get this working.
> It's
> quite a bit more complicated on Windows than Mac or Linux :)
>
> For anybody else on Windows the way I finally got this working was to use
> ssh and the ssh-agent to store the password for my private key. However,
> ssh-agent was quite a pain to get running within Windows. I finally had to
> just create an init-script in my %HOME%/.profile that started the agent and
> set the appropriate environment variables and switch to using the git-bash
> instead of the windows cmd prompt.
>
> The init script I ended up using came from this blog posting:
>
> http://markashleybell.com/articles/portable-git-windows-setting-home-environment-variable
>
> - Chris
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Adams <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM
> Subject: Git Remote Authentication
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what is the proper way of handling git push, etc. with
> buildr? Is it to use a netrc or ssh/config?
> Is there a way to specify the password in a configuration file that buildr
> will then use and input the password?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Chris
>
>
>
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