So, I've decided to be a sheep and invest my time in learning git. I'm using Windows 7 as my development platform. I have an account on github. There's a lot of tutorials around on the net, all of them point towards a windows client called msysgit. I've been poking at this thing for awhile now, but recently I refreshed my machine with a reformat. So, in setting everything back up again, I noticed there's a new msysgit build out.
So, I pulled up my usual websites that I follow along to install msysgit, and there's a change in the new installer. It no longer prompts for plink.exe and I can't find anything on google about the removal of it. After bumping along tutorials and such, I've come to realize you no longer need it.
So, my suggestions are to follow this instruction first:
Once that's done, everything worked - except, now I have to type in my passphrase every time I commit. Annoying. I came across this:
Doesn't look like it is for windows, but it is. Just follow the directions. So, make sure the bash window is open and then just type: 'vi ~/.profile' - hit 'i' to insert, paste in that entire block, then hit 'escape' then ':wq' to save the file. Once that's done, it'll look like nothing happened, but the next time you open up bash, you'll be prompted for your passphrase and as long as you keep that bash window open, you won't ever be prompted again.
Which is good. This means I no longer have to keep PuTTY's pageant.exe running in the background. One other piece of advice, you'll be tempted to download / use tortoisegit. Don't. Learn the bash / gui first. tortoisegit has issues and in my findings it runs slower.