From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:08:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Git GUI bug?
Message-ID: <20080417060843.GO29771@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7e6dd49b-133d-4b71-96bd-d1ca0357aa15@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to push a repo using git gui to Github it opens a new
> window saying pushing branch and working....please wait...Push works
> if I do it by command line and I think the bug may be related to
> public/private keys? Git GUI never asks for a password for when I
> upload the repo. Am I doing something wrong? (When I click sign off in
> Git gui it shows the correct name). I'm using msysGit 1.5.5. Thanks.

git-gui doesn't offer a way to feed a password to SSH, so you
need to use an ssh agent to load your key and bypass the SSH
password prompt.

-- 
Shawn.