# default configuration files on cygwin

2 messages from 2015-07-28 to 2015-07-28. Participants: Filippo Gatti, Chris Packham.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39953

## Filippo Gatti, 2015-07-28 07:10

Subject: default configuration files on cygwin
Message-ID: <55B72AF0.90208@centralesupelec.fr>
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Hi,

I'm currently running git on a cygwin platform.
I would like to know how i can set up a sort of configuration file to 
launch automatically the ssh-agent and get connected to github (for istance)
directly.

Thanks

Filippo

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## Chris Packham, 2015-07-28 10:57

Subject: Re: default configuration files on cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <55B72AF0.90208@centralesupelec.fr>

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Filippo Gatti
<filippo.gatti@centralesupelec.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running git on a cygwin platform.
> I would like to know how i can set up a sort of configuration file to launch
> automatically the ssh-agent and get connected to github (for istance)
> directly.

I'm not a regular cygwin user so I can't give you a direct answer, but
perhaps you need to ask the right question (or at least explain your
use-case).

The point with git (or any other DVCS) is that it does not need to
connect to anything until you want to publish your changes (i.e. git
push) or incorporate changes someone else has published (i.e. git
pull). These are the (main) cases where git will actually connect to a
remote the rest of the time everything is happening locally on your
local copy of the repository.

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