Running git from Windows Cmd line: Where are key files?

Question

So I\'ve installed msysgit, and run git successfuly from the bash shell.

From within the bash shell, I\'ve created keys with ssh-keygen - everything wor

Answer 1

From a Windows DOS file, you need to define a %HOME% environment variable.

HOME doesn't exist in a DOS session by default.
You can set it to %userprofile%, since this is already your current setting.
You also can add it to your user environment variables, in order for any DOS session to get it.

Answer 2

To get the mysysgit command line to find the .ssh keys you'll need to have %HOME% point to the directory containing the .ssh folder

Often you can just do

set HOME=%USERPROFILE%