Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
TortoiseHg locks up when I do a pull from my repository on BitBucket using SSH. It simply refuses to return, even after and hour.
I’m guessing that the problem has to do with the fact that my private key has an associated passphrase. (Everything works fine when I do it from the command line, but I do have to enter my key’s password).
So, my question is: How do I get TortoiseHg to know my key password so I can do a pull using it?
You have to use a SSH-agent that will store the deciphered key in memory.
This is really easy under unix, just launch
ssh-agentand thenssh-addthis will ask you for your password and then store the key.For windows, you can follow this tutorial for using an ssh-agent with TortoiseSVN on windows : http://matttrent.com/articles/how-use-ssh-agent-windows-tortoisesvn . If you already have a key pair, only the part about Pageant is useful for you.