PuTTY and Pageant

1. Install PuTTY

2. Copy your private key for repohost somewhere

3. Use PuTTYgen to import your private key and save it as a PuTTY .ppk file

4. Run Pageant and check that you can select that key and put in your passphrase and it works.

5. Run PuTTY and make a session for your repo host:

   • Host Name: repohost.example.com
   • Port: 22
   • Connection>>Data>>Auto-login username: yourlogin

   then put ‘repohost‘ under “Saved Sessions” and hit “save”.

6. Check that you can open this session now without a password (because pageant is caching your private key)

TortoiseCVS / TortoiseSVN

1. Install TortoiseCVS and/or TortoiseSVN
2. From the directory where you want to check out the project, right click and select CVS / SVN checkout
3. Properties:
   • Protocol “Secure Shell (:ext:)”
   • Server “repohost“
   • Repo Folder “/home/cvs” (or whatever)
4. Then hit Fetch List down on the bottom right, and a list of repos should appear. Select the one you want, then OK.
5. It’ll now create a directory for that repo, you can access CVS/SVN commands with right click.

Hope that helps!

There’s also a TortoiseGit and a TortoiseHG, but I haven’t used them.