OpenSSH has supported
Ed25519 keys since version 6.4 (2014-01-30), and
ECDSA keys since version 5.7 (2011-01-24). git-gui fails to find these
key types in its Help/Show SSH Key dialog.
Teach git-gui to show
Ed25519 and ECDSA keys as well.
This was originally reported in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1487 and subseqently in
https://public-inbox.org/git/
F65780F29E48994380E2BCE87C6F071101146AB1@DEERLM99EX2MSX.ww931.my-it-solutions.net/
Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
# Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Shawn Pearce
proc find_ssh_key {} {
- foreach name {~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/identity.pub} {
+ foreach name {
+ ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
+ ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/identity.pub
+ } {
if {[file exists $name]} {
set fh [open $name r]
set cont [read $fh]