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When trying to clone a repository through the newest version of Git Extensions a window appears which states:


Normally when using the command version of SSH you can add this footprint to the list of approved hosts, but using the front-end it doesn't work as expected.

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The front-end does not support any interactive prompts with the ssh (or git) command line process. Since I was using PuTTY I did the following to actually add this RSA signature to my approved hosts list:

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\GitExtensions\PuTTY

plink -agent github.com

Once the interactive prompt appears type 'y' to add it to the cache. You should be able to clone repositories from GitExtensions now using the "Github" feature.

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