Thanks to some insight from Corinna, the git/ssh problem should be fixed in the latest Cygwin snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ . FYI. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple