SSH version on Git 1.8.1.2 for Windows is outdated.

We're having issues with the version of SSH included in git version 1.8.1.msysgit.1 (Git-1.8.1.2-preview20130201.exe)

The included version of SSH is from 2007:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin - Old>ssh -V OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007

Updating the OpenSSH component (downloaded with Cygwin, cumbersome!!!) resolves the issue:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin>ssh -V OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

Is there any way you can incorporate this update in the installer?

Thanks,

-Kristof -- Kristof Mattei Human Compiler

Blog: www.kristofmattei.be
Twitter: KristofMattei

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:05:11 +0100 Kristof Mattei <kristof@kristofmattei.be> wrote:

Yes, you should grab the msysGit (the Git for Windows build environment) [2], tweak it to include the new OpenSSH binary, ensure it builds and works OK and then send a pull request (or post your patchset to the msysgit mailing list [3].

A sort of crash course on how to get started is [1]. The main page for the msysGit/Git for Windows development is [4].

Note that there should be no Cygwin involved, of course. Git for Windows is built completely from the sources of all the components it includes, using MinGW/MSYS so no component of Git for Windows depends on the Cygwin runtime DLL.

1. https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/102#issuecomment-13572331
2. http://github.com/msysgit/msysgit
3. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit
4. http://msysgit.github.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: Konstantin Khomoutov
Date: 3/15/2013 11:03 AM

Wow, we can do that now?

When I brought up the vastly improved performance from a newer SSH executable, I was told the only way to get it in would be to build from source [1].

-Josh

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/msysgit/ssh$20josh/msysgit/U3InWruEl88/TAFaw4xJUI0J

On 15.03.2013 21:11, Joshua Jensen wrote:

"tweak it to include the new OpenSSH binary" is supposed to include the step to adjust the release.sh script to grab the updated sources and build the binary.

However, another option is to take a look at the new mingwGitDevEnv project [1], which relies on mingw-get to retrieve binary packages. I hopefully find soon the time to include OpenSSH 6.1p1 incl. HPN-SSH patches [2].

[1] https://github.com/sschuberth/mingwGitDevEnv [2] https://github.com/sschuberth/mingwGitDevEnv/pull/5

On 03/16/13 09:14, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

I attempted to do just this about a month ago though things really started to snowball. To get openssh to compile you need to update a bunch of other programs in the msys branch and I just lost interest in doing so. More info can be found in the msysgit issue "Upgrade SSH" [1].

Any idea as to when this mingwGitDevEnv project will be mature enough to use as a replacement for msysgit? One of the reasons I gave up trying to tweak things to get openssh compiling was that this seemed like a much better idea. Though if it's fair off I might find time to give it another shot.

If someone is keen to try and update openssh in msysgit I'd be willing to share my hacks from a month ago which could be used as a starting point. It was left nowhere near ready for a pull request, partially due to binary issues mentioned above, but at least it'll provide reasonable ideas to a few of the things that need to happen.

[1] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/31

Patrik

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Patrik Gornicz <patrik-git@mail.pgornicz.com> wrote:

Due to a lack of contributors this is taking longer than I anticipated. But I realize I need to make contributing easier, and also find the time to merge some outstanding pull requests. I hope to be able to make some significant improvements at the end of March.