Git for Windows SSH Agent

.bashrc

function start_ssh_agent() {
    local SSH_AGENT=$(which ssh-agent 2>/dev/null)
    if [ -z "${SSH_AGENT}" ]; then
        return 1
    fi
    SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/ssh-agent.sock
    SSH_AGENT_PID=$(ps | grep ssh-agent | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ')
    if [ -z "${SSH_AGENT_PID}" ]; then
        eval $("${SSH_AGENT}" -a "${SSH_AUTH_SOCK}" 2>/dev/null | grep -v "echo")
    fi
    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK SSH_AGENT_PID
}

start_ssh_agent

README.md

This will prevent the ssh-agent from being started multiple times when using git for windows.

Will also work on linux.