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    Setup SSH Authentication for Git Bash on Windows

Prepararation


Create a folder at the root of your user home folder
(Example: C:/Users/username/) called .ssh.

You can run something like: mkdir -p ~/.ssh
Create the following files if they do not already
exist (paths begin from the root of your user home
folder):

touch ~/.ssh/config
touch ~/.bash_profile
touch ~/.bashrc


Create a New SSH Key

Follow the steps in the section named "Generating a new SSH
Key" found in the following documentation from GitHub:
Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent
Configure SSH for Git Hosting Server

You can use your favorite text editor: nano, vim, subl, atom, code

For example, run code ~/.ssh/config
Then, add the following lines to .ssh/config which should be found
in the root of your user home folder:
AddKeysToAgent yes
Host github.com
 Hostname github.com
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Enable SSH Agent Startup Whenever Git Bash is Started

Run your editor, e.g. code ~/.bash_profile and add the following lines:
test -f ~/.profile && . ~/.profile
test -f ~/.bashrc && . ~/.bashrc
Run your editor, e.g. code ~/.bashrc and add the following snippet:
# Start SSH Agent
#----------------------------

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function run_ssh_env {
  . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
}

function start_ssh_agent {
  echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
  ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
  echo "succeeded"
  chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"

  run_ssh_env;

  ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa;
}

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
  run_ssh_env;
  ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
    start_ssh_agent;
  }
else
  start_ssh_agent;
fi