Hi, just trying to set up git-annex-assistant on freshly installed windows 10. I've run the web app and created a local repo. I also grabbed the tarball on my server and ran "git-annex" with no arguments (?). I'm now trying to add remote server using ssh. I add the correct details and click "Check this server", at which point it displays "Testing Server, Checking ssh connection to the server. This could take a minute". indefinitely.
I've checked the log and don't see any ssh errors, but I do see some weirdness:
(scanning...) [2015-06-29 19:02:36 GMT Summer Time] Watcher: Performing startup scan
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)))))))))))))
Not sure what that is but it might be relevant? Any help would be appreciated.
This particular feature is unfortunately currently broken on Windows.
I have developed a fix, but am waiting on it getting into a library I use. See ?windows ssh webapp password entry broken.
As a workaround, if you can manually set up a passwordless ssh key on Windows, and configure the remote server to let you log in using that key, the webapp can then be used to add a repository on the server.
git-remote-gcrpyt unfortunately is written as a shell script, so getting it to work on windows would probably be very hard unless it can be run with cygwin's shell somehow.