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I just installed copSSH for Windows. When I boot it up I get a directory C:\copSSH\home\Nick\.ssh which has my pub and private key it. When I access this directory via a Cygwin bash window using ssh user@host I get happily logged in. However, when I open a git bash window with git clone ssh://user@host it tries to access the keys in C:\Users\Nick\.ssh , which gives me a "permission denied" error. How can I fix git so everything is using C:\copSSH\home\Nick\.ssh as the directory? The environment variables set by copSSH are not the same than the one found in a git bash Windows. (see also OpenSSH

I started using git and have been using it for couple of months now, and I am curious if my workflow is correct. I work from two different places on the project. here are the stages of my workflow: I pull the project from remote repo make a local branch for a new feature make changes and commit merge the branch with master push to the remote is this correct way of working on the project? As Amber said : First, let's just make something clear: there is no single "correct" workflow for Git. There are merely workflows that work - and specifically, workflows that work for you. There is a good post

Z:\>git clone git://github.com/kennethreitz/httpbin.git Cloning into 'httpbin'... remote: Counting objects: 1073, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (401/401), done. remote: Total 1073 (delta 672), reused 1045 (delta 651) Receiving objects: 100% (1073/1073), 114.42 KiB | 128 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (672/672), done. error: unable to create file httpbin/templates/... (Is a directory) git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0, Windows Vista SP2 x64 What's wrong? I think the trouble is this file here in you repo: https://github.com/kennethreitz/httpbin/blob/master/httpbin/templates/ ... ... is