My .bashrc file not executed on Git Bash startup (Windows 7)

Question

This is what I did:

cd ~
touch .bashrc
notepad .bashrc

and the content of my .bashrc is (found on the web somewhere):

SSH_E         


        

Answer 1

The simplest mechanism on Windows is the one from here http://anterence.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ssh-agent-in-msysgit.html

Modified to show key names other than 'id_rsa', the .bashrc file looks like this:

#! /bin/bash 
eval `ssh-agent -s` 
ssh-add ~/.ssh/github_rsa
ssh-add ~/.ssh/otherkey_rsa

You are prompted for the passphrase for each key in turn, but only the first time after a machine start.