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Getting the above error message trying to deploy to Heroku (Windows, PuTTY keygen). Turns out the public/private key files saved through putty aren’t of a valid OpenSSH format (expected by Heroku). You can still use Putty Keygen by copying the text generated under “Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_key file” (save it to your *.pub) I’m inching towards my first Mac. Windows is a frustration after the other. UPDATE: working with Heroku/Git/SSH on a windows machine is a royal pain. One step closer to a MaxBook. Follow these if you’re stuck: - http://therubyway.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/using-heroku-and-windows/ - http://linux-sxs.org/networking/openssh.putty.html - http://help.github.com/troubleshooting-ssh/ - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=49 My setup so far is “Putty Keygen, Putty, Pageant, Git GUI”
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=49

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By Tamer
October 4, 2010

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  1. Butch said
    on October 5, 2010

    Mac hardware is overpriced Tamer – just find a good Linux distro.

  2. Tamer said
    on October 5, 2010

    Perhaps it’s overpriced for a reason. Being frustration-less (or at least less-annoying).
    I’ve tried Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat). There’s something not quite there. Perhaps overall experience (Browsing / Flash; Thunderbird; OpenOffice; NetBeans; …).

    I’m so ready for a Mac (sans the money part).

  3. Xav said
    on December 16, 2011

    Try using http://hg-git.github.com/ . Mercurial works much better under windows.

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