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Reference

Moving from Windows 1809's OpenSSH to OpenSSH Portable

Uninstall Windows OpenSSH

Remove-WindowsCapability -Online -Name "OpenSSH.Client~~~~0.0.1.0"
Remove-WindowsCapability -Online -Name "OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0"

Uninstall service

Get-Service ssh-agent | Stop-Service
sc.exe delete ssh-agent

Install OpenSSH Portable

requires Chocolatey Package Manager

choco install openssh --package-parameters="/SSHAgentFeature"

Configure Git

git config --global core.sshCommand "'C:\Program Files\OpenSSH-Win64\ssh.exe'"
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