How to make git to work with pagent(putty) on Windows?

Question

I'm using Windows x64 and I'm not able to make msysgit to work using pagent authentication.

Here are some details:

• Putty is working without pagent without any problems.
• I have only one key loaded in pagent
• SSH auth using putty to git@github.com works (not shell allowed)
• I tried Putty 0.60 x86 and Putty 0.60 x64 and TortoisePlink - same results for all.
• the problem could be related to http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=251

The problem is that:

 plink -v -a -ssh git@github.com git version
 FATAL ERROR: Network error: Connection timed out

Answer 1

As silly at it may seam the reason for this problem is that plink will use the default hostname/ip from the Default Settings and will ignore command line parameters.

The solution is to remove hostname/ip from Default settings.

Also if you fail to connect due to fingerprint you should first connect one time using putty in order to store the fingerprint, just run putty git@github.com.