Sebastian Schuberth: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Schuberth, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Count me in the "do not bundle" group. >> As a "wishing Windows was more Unix-like" user, I always >> install the Putty suite. >> >> > So my suggestion would be to make the installer use an >> existing / user >> > provided plink.exe. The installer should display this >> option, which, >> > if selected, displays a text field to hold the path to >> plink.exe. The >> > text field could default to any auto-detected PuTTY >> installation, or >> > be empty otherwise. >> >> +1 >> This is good on the advertising and customization fronts. > > OK, I've pushed something for you to review / test to the mob branch, > see > > 5013972 > > -- > Sebastian >
Okay, I know this has already been merged into msysgit devel (not master), but I rolled this installer out and it works OK. The explanation about the GIT_SSH defining or not is clear and precise. So you have my "vote of confidence"(?). As an aside, I tried this with "github"'s ssh upload service. I initially had trouble with the host key authentication when I did a git.cmd push ... The problem was that I didn't have the host key cached in the registry, because this was my first time to use "github". Also plink called in this way does not interactively query the user if the host key is not cached. So I typed "%GIT_SSH% github.com" at the cmd prompt and then accepted the host key as presented (hoping that MITM attackers were away, how can you verify it separately?), which added it to the cache. After that git.cmd push worked. Call me out as a plink.exe novice, if you must. Best regards, Clifford Caoile
