When you installing the msysgit, please choose c:\Git as the installation directory, because the space in the directory name may cause an issue in bash commands.

Just like the msysgit, we don’t install the CopSSH in program files folder to avoid some space issues. We install it to c:\ICW.

Just like the msysgit, we don’t install the CopSSH in program files folder to avoid some space issues. We install it to c:\ICW.

Just use the default account as CopSSH provides:

After installation, open COPSSH Control Panel.

Click Add button in Users tab.

Choose an existing user on your computer (you can create one in computer management). Here in my sample, the user is jinweijie.

Allow all access:

After the user is activated, click the Keys… button in the Activated Users section:

Click Add:

Use default key settings:

Enter the Passphrase and File name:

The private key will be saved to c:\ICW\home\jinweijie\ryan-vm-01_2048.ppk.

Open C:\ICW\etc\profile with your favorite editor, add :/cygdrive/c/git/bin:/cygdrive/c/git/libexec/git-core(don’t forget the starting colon) to PATH , the whole line will be:

Then Save.

Restart the CopSSH by clicking twice the big button in CopSSH Control Panel:

If we run Git Bash again, ssh jinweijie@ryan-vm-01, enter your password and run the git command, git should be found this time:

Copy the private key (we generated in step 1-k) from server to client.

On the client side, use puttygen.exe to load the key (if you set the password in 1-j, you need to enter the password while loading the key):

Click “Save private key” to save a copy of private key for plink.exe to recognize.

Install gitextensions on both server and client.

Since we have already installed the msysgit in step 1-a, we skip the “Install MsysGit”. But if you haven’t install msysgit on the client machine, you can check the checkbox and install it.

Install to C:\GitExtensions\, other settings are default.

On the server side, open Git Extensions, click “Create new repository”.

On the server side, set the path to the project name under you CopSSH user’s home directory, select“Central repository, no working dir” (because we are the server), then “Initialize”:

On the client side, open Git Extensions, click “Clone repository”:

On the client side, the repository address should be ssh://jinweijie@ryan-vm-01/ICW/home/jinweijie/mydotnetproject. Please be aware that, the repository should begin with c:\ on the server.

On the client side, click “Load SSH Key” and load the key which was saved in step 4-b:

On the client side, enter the password if you set password to the key, then click Clone:

On the client side, add ignore files:

On the client side, open Visual Studio, create a project to mydotnetproject folder (which is the cloned repository), you may find the files are already under git source control:

Click the “Commit” button on the menu bar, then click “Commit & Push”:

Push succeeded:

On the server side, you can find the new pushed files: