If you install GitExtensions, up through the current 2.24 version (which comes bundled with the latest msysgit version 1.7.6-preview20110708), and use OpenSSH for your authentication (as opposed to Plink), you’ll likely notice some painfully slow cloning speeds. Like 1MB/sec on a 100Mb network kinda slow.
Thankfully, it’s a pretty easy fix. Apparently msysgit still comes bundled with an ancient version of OpenSSH:
$ ssh -V OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
Until they get it updated, it’s easy to do yourself. Simply install the latest version of Cygwin, and make sure to search for and install OpenSSH on the package screen. Then go into the /bin directory of where you installed Cygwin, and copy the following files into C:\Program Files\Git\bin (or Program Files (x86) if you’re on 64-bit):
- cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll
- cyggcc_s-1.dll
- cygssp-0.dll
- cygwin1.dll
- cygz.dll
- ssh.exe
- ssh-add.exe
- ssh-agent.exe
- ssh-keygen.exe
- ssh-keyscan.exe
Checking the OpenSSH version should yield something a bit higher now:
$ ssh -V OpenSSH_5.8p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
Your clone speeds should be faster too. This upgrade bumped ours from literally around 1MB/sec to a bit over 10MB/sec. Nice.
January 12th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Thank you, i had exactly the same issue, and by investigating i also noticed that OpenSSH was very old.
Really odd for an active recent project like msysgit IMO.
March 17th, 2013 at 5:28 am
Thank you very much!!!
The updated list of files that I used is:
cygasn1-8.dll
cygcom_err-2.dll
cygcrypt-0.dll
cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll
cyggcc_s-1.dll
cyggssapi-3.dll
cygheimbase-1.dll
cygheimntlm-0.dll
cyghx509-5.dll
cygiconv-2.dll
cygintl-8.dll
cygkrb5-26.dll
cygroken-18.dll
cygsqlite3-0.dll
cygssp-0.dll
cygwin1.dll
cygwind-0.dll
cygz.dll
ssh-add.exe
ssh-agent.exe
ssh-keygen.exe
ssh-keyscan.exe
ssh.exe
April 24th, 2013 at 8:45 am
Thanks for the help, our windows builds were taking 10 fold longer than the unix builds. This solved our issue