How can I run git commands on Windows with SSH verbose mode?

Question

This is the Windows version of How can I run git push/pull commands with SSH verbose mode?

There are times where you just need to debug git's usage of SSH.

OpenSSH has a -v flag for verbose output, but how do you get git to use it?

How can I run git commands on Windows with SSH verbose mode?

Answer 1

If your PATH is correctly set:

• you don't need OpenSSH-Win64 (ssh is already included in Git)
• you don't need to specify the full path for SSH

You need:

set GH=C:\path\to\git
set PATH=%GH%\bin;%GH%\usr\bin;%GH%\mingw64\bin;%PATH%

Then

set GIT_SSH_COMMAND=ssh -vvv

Answer 2

You can force git to provide verbose ssh output with the "GIT_SSH_COMMAND" environment variable.

For example, to get verbose output from OpenSSH-For-Windows for a git clone command, just open a command prompt and enter

set GIT_SSH_COMMAND="C:\Program Files\OpenSSH-Win64\ssh.exe" -vvv
git clone <repo_ssh_url>

Note the location of the quotation marks.