How to enable TortoiseHg (Mercurial) on Windows to use the private key file generated (Puttygen)?

Question

I used Puttygen to create a public and private key, and then I'm ready to let TortoiseHg on Windows 7 make a clone by going to

ssh://[e-mail]/somecode 

but there seems to be no place to add a private key in TortoiseHg? (or even just a mercurial command line)

The file already exists somewhere on the hard drive like somefile.ppk Does anyone know how to add it?

Answer 1

Or add the following to the [ui] mercurial.ini object in your home directory (if your key is in "C: \ Users \ UserName \ mykey.ppk"):

 [ui] ssh = tortoiseplink.exe -ssh -i "C:\Users\UserName\mykey.ppk" 

or use the Pageant found on the TortoiseHg installation path (for example, C: \ Program Files \ TortoiseHg \ Pageant.exe). Launch it, double-click the taskbar icon that appears, and add the .ppk file.

Answer 2

you need ssh key generator first

1. cmd: ssh-keygen -t rsa
2. open PuTTY key generator
3. Conversions> import key: open the id_rsa file in C: \ Users \ .ssh (you may need to create a folder! You must run cmd as administrator!)
4. Save the imported id_rsa file as id_rsa.ppk
5. Open Pageant.exe in the TortoiseHG folder
6. It will be displayed on the taskbar.
7. Right-click and select Add Keys.
8. Finally add a new ppk file

Yes, right, copy the contents of id_rsa.pub to the hg host