It seems you are no longer cool unless you are using Git and Github, so I decided I’d give it a shot with Esenterate.  I found Git for Windows Developers to be extremely useful, and I highly recommend reading it if you are thinking about using Git. 

Everything was fairly straight forward except for one small detail: I wanted to use Git from both my laptop and my desktop.  I generated my public/private key pair on my laptop, then copied it to my desktop, but I wasn’t sure how to associate the pair with my user in gitbash.  (yes, I realize that the solution is probably obvious to all you *nix peeps out there; go back to editing your 10,000 config files, please. *smiles*)  Without this key correctly associated to your account, you won’t be able to push to Github.  After some Googling, I discovered the ssh-add command.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it to work.  I kept getting Could not open a connection to your authentication agent errors.  After even more Googling, I found the solution: you need to start ssh-agent, then execute the ssh-add command, like so:

exec ssh-agent bash
ssh-add id_rsa

If everything goes according to plan, you should see a success message like Identity added: id_rsa (id_rsa).  You should now be all set to push to Github!