![]() The conventional wisdom solution offers many steps that are roughly: You want to avoid both http passwords and the http protocol for git CLI operations.You want to get away from git storing local passwords – whether in the git config or in Windows Credentials (with the windows credential helper) because it is painful to walk people through how to find and update this password when they change it on the Git server.There are multiple reasons you may want to move your Windows developers to SSH authentication for Git: There is also an optional connectivity test. The resultant tool is a 20 line PowerShell script that deploys Git, configures SSH and leaves the public key on your clipboard so you can paste it into GitLab or any other Git collaborative webserver. ![]() My inner tool smith really loathes when the very first steps into something new are fraught with rocky rabbit holes – so I took on the challenge of creating an easier way. The common Internet guidance for setting up Git with SSH authentication on Windows are unnecessarily complex. Your next steps may well be into a rough and rocky rabbit hole when you were holding out hope for simplicity (you know the kind you’ve fallen into before if you’ve been in tech for more than about 45 minutes). Maybe you have a team of Windows developers that are onboarding for your new Git server installation or maybe you’ve decided to drop http password authentication to your existing Git server (due to it’s many problems).
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