How does lazygit work with ssh keys in windows?

[RollsChris]

I'm wondering how lazygit works with ssh keys on windows. I thought it just calls git commands under the hood.

When I'm in a power-shell session and i use git directly, it asks for my ssh key password and everything works. But then inside lazygit (started in the same session) i am getting access denied?

Anyone have any ideas or extra info that could help?

Thanks

[wjeffreys96]

I am also having this issue. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe there is a way to give lazygit your ssh key?

[kostja-me]

Having the same issue, any guidance?

[ingenarel]

having this issue too. i currently have to use windows and this is such a pain. never had this issue in linux.

[ingenarel]

okay i was having issues with git submodules in windows and i decided to research a bit more. this might be a problem with git itself.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1613#issuecomment-962240162

using this workaround for the submodules seems to fix the issue for lazygit too.

[VladasZ]

Same issue here. On Windows Just git pull works fine in powershell. But lazygit doesn't work. Works fine on macOS with the same keys though.

[ChrisMcD1]

It is possible that is the same type of problem we had with GPG keys. Getting user input down into git commands is unfortunately tricky to handle. See https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pull/4394 for some usage of WithGpgHandling which does work to temporarily put lazygit in the background to give GPG access to your terminal, in case it needs user input.

[Nico-Mayer]

Same Problem for me with a ed25519 ssh-key

[dfkuro]

Same issue here. On Windows Just git pull works fine in powershell. But lazygit doesn't work. Works fine on macOS with the same keys though.

I got a solution from hashimaziz1 using git config --global core.sshCommand "C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe" on windows.