How to let TortoiseHg (Mercurial) on Windows use the Private Key file generated (by Puttygen)?

ssh putty mercurial public-key tortoisehg

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Solution 1

From the answer almost the same question at stackoverflow.com (by David Tischler):

Add the following to the [ui]-section of the mercurial.ini in your home directory:

[ui]
ssh = tortoiseplink.exe -ssh -i "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk"

Or if you want to specify your ssh username, add

[ui]
ssh = tortoiseplink.exe -ssh -i "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk" -l myusername

(assuming your key is in "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk").

Pageant (already mentioned by others) should work also (even though I haven't tried it myself).

Solution 2

Looks like you need to run pageant.exe on the .ppk file generated by putty to register it in a place that hg can find it.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

zegkljan almost 2 years
I have used Puttygen to create a public and a private key, and I'm now ready to let TortoiseHg on Windows 7 do a clone by going to
```
ssh://[email protected]/somecode
```
but there seems to be no where to add the private key to TortoiseHg? (or even just the Mercurial command line)

The file is already some where on hard disk as somefile.ppk. Does someone know how to add it?
Zero3 almost 8 years

Does not work for me: remote: 'tortoiseplink.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, remote: operable program or batch file.
David Cary about 7 years

"if I give plink.exe the -ssh parameter, the saved PuTTY session is not used and therefore it doesn't use the correct port number. The -ssh parameter is unnecessary anyway, because SSH is the default protocol." -- mercurial-scm.org/wiki/AccessingSshRepositoriesFromWindows
David Cary about 7 years

@Zero3: After I installed TortoiseHg and PuTTY, I added this line to my "C:\Users\dc\mercurial.ini" file in the [ui] section: ssh = "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\lib\TortoisePlink.exe" -i "C:\Users\dc\.ssh\github_rsa.ppk"