Cloning from GitHub shows a dialog that is not clear

[julie777]

• [x] I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.39.2.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: a82fa99b36ddfd643e61ed45e52abe314687df67
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2965]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path:
Default Branch Option: main
Path Option: CmdTools
SSH Option: ExternalOpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: LFOnly
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related to the issue you're seeing?

insert your response here

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Git Bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example this will help us understand the issue.

git clone git@github.com:...

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

clone the repo

• What actually happened instead?
• I received the following dialog
• It has a text box but no instructions for what I should enter
• I do not know what to expect if I select okay
• It does a good job telling which keys are an issue and where they can be found, but offers no help as to the best solution

[rimrul]

Ah, I see what's happening. When we wrote git-askpass we didn't quite expect the questions that OpenSSH would ask to be this long. The prompt from OpenSSH gets cut of at the input field. The full uncropped prompt seems to continue with

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

So the underlying ssh is expecting you to enter either yes or no in there.

[dscho]

As to the concrete problem pointed out by the error message, and how to deal with it, see https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/

[rimrul]

I've made some progress with resizing the dialog according to the length of the prompt, now I just need to figure out why the pushbuttons are behaving the way they are.