Trying to “install” github, .ssh dir not there

Question

I\'m following the step by step directions of github. I\'m trying to install it on windows 7.

The documentation states the key will be stored in /users/tedpottel/.

Answer 1

You should be able to create your ssh directory in a DOS session:

cd c:\Users\tedpottel
mkdir .ssh

Use the git-cmd.bat provided by msysgit to launch your DOS session.
Path like /users/tedpottel/.ssh/ are unix-like paths that you can use in a bash session, also included in msysgit.

In that git-cmd.bat, the environment variable HOME will be set to c:\Users\tedpottel, which is important if you want ssh to works properly (it will look for public/private keys in %HOME%\.ssh).