Forwarding SSH Agent requests from WSL to Windows
Find out how to store your SSH keys in Windows and access them from your WSL distros
Fun with Git for Windows, SSH Keys and Passphrases
Disclaimer: this post is one to file under “things I’m blogging in the hope that I find the answer more quickly next time”.
Background
I switched to using SSH key auth for GitHub and Azure DevOps Repos a long time ago and never looked back. For a while I was using SSH keys without passphrases but got round to adding passphrases a while back. I set up the Windows OpenSSH Authentication Agent - the service defaults to Disabled so I set it as Automatic start and nudged it to Running. (For more information, see the docs on installing Windows OpenSSH)
[Read More]Working With Git Rebase in Visual Studio Code
Following the git theme for mini-posts, I thought I’d give git rebase a mention this time.
When I first started working with git I found a way to pretend that it was a source control system like any other that I’d used. Eventually, I was working on a pull request for an OSS project and a maintainer asked me to rebase my changes. Now, I’d heard of rebase at that point but I hadn’t used it, so I was a bit daunted. So this post has a few tips that I wish I’d known at that point. By way of encouragement, I’ll add that getting familiar with git rebase is a huge part of the reason that I love git and has improved my developer workflow.
[Read More]Setting Visual Studio Code As Your Git Editor
Do you use VS Code as your editor? Make life easy on yourself for git operations by making it your git editor, too