Ssh-agent on windows(git bash)

Open git bash and create a new file called .bashrc

eval `ssh-agent.exe`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/*_rsa

This will start each time you open git bash and ask for your passphrase of your ssh keys you created for our gitolite server on cvs2.

Now when you clone push or pull or fetch from the server you will not be asked for your passphrase again because it is stored in your agent.

You can also add agent forwarding so when you ssh to dev53 or dev55 from git bash you can still use git.

Create a file called ~/.ssh/config

Host *
    ForwardAgent yes
    ServerAliveInterval 60

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