windows - Git fatal: remote end hung up

Question

So I thought I had finally got everything setup on Windows ... then ran into this issue.

Current setup

URL: ssh://user@host:port/myapp.git

Already run Putty - and can connect using valid .ppk keys through the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys direct. In Git and TortoiseGIT - I set both to use "plink.exe".

Putty works fine - no issues - but when I run that URL into bash I get for a git clone (url)

fatal: the remote end hung up expectedly

In a cygwin bash terminal - running "ssh user@host" - works no probs at all.

Anyone suggest anything?

Answer 1

I found out that using ssh.exe from the Git package works every time, as opposed to the ssh that comes with cygwin (the default). Using this exported variable seems to help; it's slower (2x or more) but it's more stable. Take it as another workaround.

$ export GIT_SSH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/ssh.exe

FYI: This version of Msysgit comes with OpenSSH 4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e. [works] Cygwin's SSH is OpenSSH 5.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8n. [doesn't work]