如何将 VSCode 配置为自动获取 git 而无需在 Windows 上询问 SSH 密钥密码 10

Question

Because of this password prompt, auto-fetch, push and pull from VSCode doesn't work. This requires me to manually push/pull from the integrated terminal (which will prompt me a password).

However, when I run ssh -T git@github.com-work within the Integrated Terminal of VSCode, I am able to ssh in without a password prompt (which is what I am trying to achieve). I have already added the ssh keys via ssh-add and I see them using ssh-add -L . Similarly, I am able to run ssh -T git@github.com-work in Windows Terminal without being prompted for the password.

What I wish to achieve is being able to push and pull my repositories using VSCode's inbuilt tools without the password prompt every time I attempt to fetch, pull or push. This password prompt is preventing VSCode from auto-fetching or updating my repository by clicking the sync icon on the bottom right ( results in a Permission denied(publickey, keyboard-interactive) prompt from VSCode )

Edit :

Thanks to VonC, I don't have to type my password everytime I run git fetch etc. within VSCode's integrated terminal. This was solved by adding

$env:GIT_SSH="C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe"

to my Powershell profile.

However, it still didn't resolve the main issue that VSCode's internal source control tools are unable to pull from git@github.com-work but keeps trying at git@github.com .

Answer 1

Make sure the remote origin URL used by VSCode is actually github.com-work (check that in the VSCode output terminal for 'Git').
You don't even need git if your %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config file does specify User git under the entry Host github.com-work )

And as mentioned here , launch VSCode (for testing) from a CMD where you have:

set GIT_SSH=C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe

Answer 2

These extra steps did the trick: ref

The key is to use Windows' OpenSSH as mentioned, but also need to setup git config file to load the key in the Windows Agent.

    AddKeysToAgent yes
    IdentitiesOnly yes