Question

I am trying to get GIT to work fully in my beloved TakeCommand command-line window on Windows 7.

I installed msysgit v.1.7.3, created my SSH keys and all, and in GIT Bash, everything works just fine and dandy.

But I always have my TakeCommand windows open anyway – so I really don’t want Yet Another Command Line Window just for GIT.

Most commands like git status, git add, git commit and so forth work just fine in TakeCommand – the only thing that doesn’t work is pull and push.

I have setup a ~/.ssh/config file that points to my company’s central repo, and in Git Bash, everything works just fine. But in TakeCommand, I get:

D:\myGitProject> git pull "origin" master:master

ssh: gerrit: no address associated with name
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

WTF?!?!? Same with git push – what’s going on here?? My SSH is set up, Git Bash works, the ~/.ssh/config file is there and accessible – I’m at a loss…..

Any brilliant ideas? I sure hope so!!

Update: for @Mark Longair – here’s my ~/.ssh/config file – slightly edited 🙂

Host gerrit
  Hostname git.mycompany.com
  Port 29418
  User myself
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gerrit_myself_rsa

I can ping git.mycompany.com, but I cannot ping gerrit. Any ideas? Should I add an entry for gerrit into my hosts file and point it to the same IP as the git server here??

Answer 1

To answer your question at the end, you could add gerrit to your hosts file, but that wouldn’t let you customize the port, and doesn’t help to understand the problem – specifying a nickname for the host in your SSH config should work!

My suspicion is that the ~/.ssh/config file isn’t being read at all, possibly because SSH is looking in a different location for it. To test this, just try:

ssh gerrit

That should just produce the same error. Then, to get more information, try:

ssh -v gerrit

If it’s working successfully, the output should begin something like the following:

OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu6, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/mark/.ssh/config
debug1: Applying options for gerrit
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to git.mycompany.com [192.168.0.2] port 22.
[...]

(That’s from Linux, but it should be similar from the OpenSSH client bundled with msysgit.) If you don’t see the “Reading configuration data [your config file]” line then that’s likely to be the problem.

Can you successfully connect with:

 ssh [e-mail]

… incidentally?

The other thing that I would check is what HOME is set to at the command prompt.