Cloning a read-write github repository using TortoiseHg

Question

I\'m trying to clone my personal fork on github using the git+ssh protocol with TortoiseHg. It\'s giving me a rather strange error. Here is the command

hg cl         


        

Answer 1

I found I had to launch Pageant and load my SSH key and then initially clone using the command-line e.g.:

hg clone git+ssh://git@github.com//.git

But from then on I could use TortoiseHg against GitHub (push and pull) just fine (although Pageant needs to be running for authentication to work).