Tortoise git fails with No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)

Question

I'm at a loss here. I had tortoise working fine but something changed. Now whenever I try to commit or pull from a remote repo I get

git.exe push --progress  "origin" master:master

FATAL ERROR: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.


git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128) (1250 ms @ 3/23/2014 10:18:15 AM)

I have the GIT_SSH env var set to C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe and I have pagaent.exe running with my loaded private keys. github has my public keys.

Running the same command in the console

git.exe push --progress "origin" master:master works just fine though! I've tried uninstalling tortoise, upgrading git, creating a new ssh key, nothing seems to work.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Solution 1

I found the problem. I had installed Gow at some point which came with a version of pageant which I was spawning. This version of pagaent is somehow different than the one that comes with Putty and so tortoise was failing. When I ran the version of pagaent that comes with Putty everything finally worked again.

Solution 2

It is better to use the one from TortoiseGit.

It is called TortoiseGitPlink.

More QA is done tightly with TortoiseGit.