From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:58:52 GMT
Subject: Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003221155200.7596@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003221012290.11364@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Peter Krefting wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309)
> > Last update: 9 March 2010
> 
> The redesigned installer seems to have lost the option to choose to use 
> Putty over OpenSSH, is there any documentation on how to set it up to 
> use Putty anyway?

Support for Putty has not been taken away, but it caused us so many 
problems (because people cannot easily accept new host keys). So it is 
only offered if you proved that you can accept new host keys yourself, and 
saved a session.

Hth,
Dscho