There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrej Mitrovic" <none at none.none> wrote in message 
news:ir43p5$21q7$1 at digitalmars.com...
> I'm not sure when these came out, but the last time I've tried using git 
> and github the instructions were a little bit messed up (i.e. windows 
> instructions mixed up with linux instructions) and I couldn't really get 
> anything to work back then. But they've made new ones, with screenshots 
> and the works:
>
> http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
>
> I've finally managed to make a pull and a push, yay! I'm still trying to 
> figure out an alternative to ssh-agent, since that is unavailable on 
> Windows. Otherwise I'll have to copy/paste the pass all the time or just 
> use a passwordless key (eh, it's not like I'll be storing sensitive 
> information on github..).
>

I came across some instructions somewhere that involved using something 
called Pageant, and it's working for me. Basically, I gave Pageant the keys, 
set Pageant to load at startup and it sits there in the background handing 
all that git ssh stuff for me. I don't have a clue what any of the details 
were, though. Can't remember. I did install TortoiseGit, too, I don't know 
if that might have something to do with it...  With a brief googling, this 
*might* be it, but I'm not sure: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3625148/how-do-i-store-a-password-for-my-key-so-i-can-commit-and-pull-from-repository-whe

God I fucking hate broken documentation and half-assed windows ports (which 
Git clearly is)...

Now if only the Dulwich people would quit pretending this was a minor issue: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dulwich/+bug/670035   ...Then I'd actually be 
able to start using hg-git/TortoiseHg instead of putting up with the 
convoluted mess that git is...(Rebase? Seriously?!)