ssh, git and windows?

MuGeN · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:48

i'm learning all about ssh at the moment mainly since we're just getting into git... i can work just fine between 2 networked macs but i have no idea how to let the bleedin' windows machine join the party...

i can't ssh to a location where a repo might be on the windows machine since ssh is a unix thing surely? bit foxed as to how the pc can become part of what we're doing... so, how do i clone, push, pull etc from and to a windows machine?

steve-h · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:54

not sure really what you're on about... (probably my fault, not yours)

if you want to use ssh on windows, OpenSSH is good.

Bigsy · 21 Dec 2009 at 21:23

Indeed, or I'd probably just stick wygwin on it, that way you can easily use all the *nix tools you might need.

MuGeN · 21 Dec 2009 at 21:42

so if openssh or wygwin is running (does it have to be constantly running?) then i can treat the windows machine as a unix-based system and interact with the file system and use git with it etc?

Bigsy · 22 Dec 2009 at 10:57

You can install either as services, cygwin will just run openssh anyway but gives you the option of more linux like tools (wget, scp etc), but I'm a bit confused on what your trying to do?

Git will work over many protocols, so why not just use http(s) or ftp?

If you want all the machines to interact via the file system then setup samba on he Linux boxes, windows will then be able to see/read/write to their network shares and vice versa.