Git can't find .ssh

Question

Problem using msysgit on Windows; it can\'t find .ssh/id_rsa, even though it is present where it should be.

I verified that\'s the problem with ssh -v git@github.com; th

Answer 1

I had this problem with git in Msys/MinGW where it couldn't find my private key, despite being able to ssh into the server fine.

The problem was that the entry in ~/.ssh/config said:

Host github.com
IdentityFile /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa

However Git required the full path from a Windows point of view like this instead:

Host github.com
IdentityFile c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa

and then it worked.

To discover this path from msys, run cd ~/.ssh and then pwd -W