SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows

Question

I\'m trying to configure GIT on my Windows XP machine, but SSH keeps creating and looking for the public/private key pair in non-sensical places, e.g. /.ssh/id_rsa

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Answer 1

On Windows 7 Just Place your Private Key ( id_rsa ) inside C:\Users\.ssh FOLDER If .ssh Folder doesnt exist just create it. Download GIT for Windows, cd into your Project Directory and do git clone ssh://@/.git