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andy-5 / wslgit

Use Git installed in Bash on Windows/Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Windows and Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
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Add `ssh-keygen.exe` or other tools #118

Closed baxyz closed 2 years ago

baxyz commented 2 years ago

I know that I'm going to ask a very specific thing, however, it could help other person in some way.

My motivation is to install Sailfish OS dev tools on Windows and trying to use WSL as much as possible.
The installer expects Git for Windows and it checks if ssh-keygen.exe is aside the bash.exe.
Of course, it fails because I use the bash.exe provided by wslgit and there is only git.exe available.

My request is: it's a wonderful idea to proxy git.exe to WSL git, can we go further by providing some useful tools? Maybe those about SSH keys, diffs, ...
I do not say that it is smart to wrap all the 270 apps provided by Git for Windows, juste a few of them.

andy-5 commented 2 years ago

I understand your request, but I think it is not in scope for this project to add other executables that are forwarded to WSL (the bash.exe is only a link to wsl.exe).

There are, however, quite a few projects that aim to forward arbitrary commands to WSL, e.g.:

I don't know how well they work, but maybe you can just add ssh-keygen.exe using one of these projects.

Please report back to this issue if you get it working, this might also be interesting for other users.