Martin Gagnon <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:05:15AM -0500, Carson Chittom wrote:
>> I am unable to clone a repository via SSH from Windows 8 (cloning via
>> HTTP works fine).  The remote repository is on a machine running OpenBSD
>> 5.3, if it matters.  I am experiencing this problem both with the 1.25
>> binary release as well as the trunk that I checked out today and
>> compiled.
>> 
>> My (possibly mistaken) memory of when I installed fossil on Windows 7
>> was that I renamed plink.exe to ssh.exe and everything Just Worked.
>> Trying to do the same on Windows 8 got me an error about how "-e" was an
>> unknown option.  So I set 
>> 
>> C:\Users\Carson>fossil settings --global ssh-command "ssh"
>> 
>> Attempting to clone just gets me "Access denied" with no opportunity to
>> put in the password for the remote machine.
>> 
>
> I beleive clone/sync via ssh don't work with plink. I've never got it to
> work.  I'll probably try one day to check why when I'll have some time.

I know it does work:  I use fossil+plink at work on Windows 7.

> Meanwile, I use mingw and the openssh client that come with it work
> well.

That's not a bad idea.  If I can't get plink to work eventually, I'll
probably go that route.

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