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Brian L. <brian AT blucz DOT com> wrote:

>> I'm seeing very similar bad behavior from cygwin+git on win7 x64 as
>> well as winxp x86. This bug is not confined to 64 bit platforms. This
>> bug is new in 1.7.x--I have cygwin 1.5 installs on both of these
>> machines that do not exhibit this failure.
>> 
>> The problem seems to be rooted in cygwin's openssh package. If I point
>> GIT_SSH at plink.exe (from the putty distribution) and configure
>> pageant properly for keyless login then git works fine.

Good sleuthing!


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