How to run ssh-add on windows?

Question

I\'m following #335 Deploying to a VPS , and near the end of the episode, we need to run ssh-add to give server access to github repo.

The problem is ho

Answer 1

If you are not using GitBash - you need to start your ssh-agent using this command

start-ssh-agent.cmd

This is brutally buried in the comments and hard to find. This should be accepted answer.

If your ssh agent is not set up, you can open PowerShell as admin and set it to manual mode

Get-Service -Name ssh-agent | Set-Service -StartupType Manual