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Posh-Git: Avoid having to input your username and password for each push

Tags: git, powershell, posh-git, ssh

Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:16:00 PM

Phil Haack gives the steps here: http://haacked.com/archive/2011/12/19/get-git-for-windows.aspx/

  1. Install msysgit (aka Git for Windows).
  2. Update Posh-Git
  3. Add the ssh-agent to your PATH.

This worked for me. The only challenge was step 2, because I had trouble installing PsGet. So I wrote another blog post to explain my resolution.

Troubleshooting

If ssh-agent keeps prompting for the password, manually run the following: 

Import-Module Posh-Git
Start-SshAgent