HTCondorWiki: Git From Windows

 {subsection: Setup to use Git without passwords like Todd does}
 
 1: Download plink.exe (google it). This is a nice, free, full-featured command link ssh client for Win32.
-1: Grab puttygen.exe (google it) and use it to create a public/private keypair and add the public key into your authorized keys as instructed here. Don't protect your private key with a passphrase; instead, store your keys on your Windows machine in ~/.ssh2 (or wherever) and right select on that folder. Then (at least on XP), click on the =Advanced= button near the folder Attributes and place a check mark next to =Encrypt contents to secure data=.
+1: Grab puttygen.exe (google it) and use it to create a public/private keypair and add the public key into your authorized keys as instructed {link: "http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#puttygen-pastekey" here}. Don't protect your private key with a passphrase; instead, store your keys on your Windows machine in ~/.ssh2 (or wherever) and right select on that folder. Then (at least on XP), click on the =Advanced= button near the folder Attributes and place a check mark next to =Encrypt contents to secure data=.
 1: Test that you can now ssh w/o a password by entering something like:
 {code}
 plink.exe -2 -C -i c:\home\tannenba\.ssh2\putty.ppk %1 "/bin/date"