Updated Setting up a Git server on Windows using Git for Windows and Win32_OpenSSH (markdown)

Yanbing 2017-09-27 14:27:43 -07:00
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1. Create a central Git repository. Go to where you want to create a central repo, `git clone --bare <source dir>`. A directory with name `<source dir>.git` will be created. In it will be the .git contents of your source dir repo. for example:
`git clone --bare c:\git\newrepo.git`
1. If you already have user private and public keys, copy the public key to C:\Users\{user}\.ssh\ and rename it to authorized_keys
1. If you already have user private and public keys, copy the user public key to `C:\Users\{user}\.ssh\` and rename it to authorized_keys
## On Client
1. Set environment variable for git to use Win32_OpenSSH
`$env:GIT_SSH_COMMAND = '"C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\ssh.exe" -T'`
1. (Optional: for key based auth) For key based authentication to work, generate user private and public key. The generated public key need to copy to C:\Users\{user}\.ssh\authorizedkeys as indicated in step 5 on Server
`ssh-keygen.exe -t ed25519 -f c:\test\myprivatekey`
1. (Optional) Register the user private key for single sign on
`ssh-add.exe <user priviate key>`
`ssh-add.exe c:\test\myprivatekey`
1. To check out a repository:
**Note that `git clone user@domain@servermachine:C:/test/myrepo.git` does not work due to [known issue](https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/895). Work around it by following steps: