Adding a Project to Gitorious with a Windows Computer

If you are developing software in Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, here are the steps to follow to push your project to Gitorious.

1. Register and create a new project on Gitorious, if you haven’t done already.
2. Install msysGit to have git on your Windows machine
3. Click on “Git Bash” to start the command line
4. Generate the SSH Key with "ssh-keygen -t rsa" and  press ‘Return’ in every question. Go to your Gitorious dashboard, click on “Manage SSH Keys” then “Add SSH Key“, copy the content of "cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub” in Gitorious and click save
5. Then go to your local project directory and follow the “getting started instructions” given in Gitorious, which should look like:
   • git config –global user.name “Your Name”
   • git config –global user.email “[email protected]”
   • git checkout master
   • git remote add origin [email protected]:your-project/your-project.git
   • git push origin master

Then wait until the code is pushed to the Gitorious server.

If you also installed ToitoiseGit on your development machine, you may encounter the following error as you connect to Gitorious:

Disconnected: No Supported authentication methods available

To work around this issue check GIT_SSH environment variable is set to “/usr/bin/ssh.exe”:

If TortoiseGit  is installed, it may be set to “C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe” instead and generate the error shown above.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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