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fix-git-ssh-windows-cmd.md

I noticed that I could no longer use SSH to git clone, push, etc in the Windows CMD prompt.

git clone no longer working with SSH

You may be getting these errors:

  • Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory
  • permission denied (publickey)

It turns out that setting a HOME environment variable will mess up the OpenSSH commands; probably because it can't find the .ssh directory(C:\Users\my_user\.ssh).

The solution is just to remove the HOME environment variable.

The reason I had this set in the first place, was that I was playing around with nvm and the nvm command will complain about no HOME being set when it tries to download builds.

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