{"thread":{"id":"39953","subject":"default configuration files on cygwin","startedAt":"2015-07-28T07:10:40Z","lastAt":"2015-07-28T10:57:36Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Filippo Gatti","Chris Packham"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"266902","messageId":"55B72AF0.90208@centralesupelec.fr","threadId":"39953","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"default configuration files on cygwin","fromName":"Filippo Gatti","fromEmail":"filippo.gatti@centralesupelec.fr","sentAt":"2015-07-28T07:10:40Z","receivedAt":"2015-07-28T07:10:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"filippo.gatti@centralesupelec.fr","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nI'm currently running git on a cygwin platform.\nI would like to know how i can set up a sort of configuration file to \nlaunch automatically the ssh-agent and get connected to github (for istance)\ndirectly.\n\nThanks\n\nFilippo\n"},{"id":"266919","messageId":"CAFOYHZB2u8JjvaUvcd_RU8_=8c_M0yUeCs_b5_pZasKoGtdgMg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"39953","inReplyTo":"55B72AF0.90208@centralesupelec.fr","subject":"Re: default configuration files on cygwin","fromName":"Chris Packham","fromEmail":"judge.packham@gmail.com","sentAt":"2015-07-28T10:57:36Z","receivedAt":"2015-07-28T10:57:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"judge.packham@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/155667?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Filippo Gatti\n<filippo.gatti@centralesupelec.fr> wrote:\n> Hi,\n>\n> I'm currently running git on a cygwin platform.\n> I would like to know how i can set up a sort of configuration file to launch\n> automatically the ssh-agent and get connected to github (for istance)\n> directly.\n\nI'm not a regular cygwin user so I can't give you a direct answer, but\nperhaps you need to ask the right question (or at least explain your\nuse-case).\n\nThe point with git (or any other DVCS) is that it does not need to\nconnect to anything until you want to publish your changes (i.e. git\npush) or incorporate changes someone else has published (i.e. git\npull). These are the (main) cases where git will actually connect to a\nremote the rest of the time everything is happening locally on your\nlocal copy of the repository.\n"}]}