Git Extensions Does Not Recognize Github RSA Signature

Question

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

The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is.

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.

Answer 1

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.