Running git from Windows Cmd line: Where are key files?

Question

So I've installed msysgit, and run git successfuly from the bash shell.

From within the bash shell, I've created keys with ssh-keygen - everything works fine.
Key files are in my %userprofile%\.ssh folder (from the bash shell, it is: ~/.ssh ).
I'm able to connect to my server (unfuddle in my case).

Next, I do want to be able to run git from the Windows Cmd shell.
Adding c:\msysgit\bin and c:\msysgit\mingw\bin to the search path.
Git is working locally just fine: branch, merge, add, commit, checkout, ... working well.

However, trying to work with the server fails, with: ' Permission denied (publickey). '
It looks like git, when executed from command line looks at a different location trying to allocated the key files, or another reason causing it to fail.

Answer 1

To get the mysysgit command line to find the.ssh keys you'll need to have %HOME% point to the directory containing the.ssh folder

Often you can just do

set HOME=%USERPROFILE%

Answer 2

From a Windows DOS file, you need to define a %HOME% environment variable.

HOME doesn't exist in a DOS session by default.
You can set it to %userprofile% , since this is already your current setting.
You also can add it to your user environment variables, in order for any DOS session to get it.