Re: feature-request: silently stops ssh-agent.exe when upgrading (windows)

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Hi Brian

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Sorry for bothering

Keep the great work and have a great end of year time

Cheers

Jean-Michel

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:43 AM brian m. carlson
<sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2022-12-15 at 08:38:01, Jean-Michel MERCIER wrote:
> > Hello
>
> Hey,
>
> > I've looked in the public-inbox archive without finding any similar request.
> >
> > I believe it is a bit annoying that upgrading git-scm always generates
> > an error when ssh-agent.exe is still running. User than have to open
> > the Task Manager, find the task and kill it.
> >
> > Could you consider silently stopping ssh-agent during an upgrade, and
> > may be restarting it afterward ?
> > Most installer do that or at least offer the user to do it to allow
> > seamless upgrading.
>
> The Git project doesn't distribute any binaries at all, and it doesn't
> distribute OpenSSH.   It distributes source code for Git, and that's
> all.
>
> It sounds like you're using Git for Windows, which does distribute
> binaries, both of Git and OpenSSH.  If you have feedback for them,
> you'll probably want to use their issue tracker
> (https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues) and, if it hasn't
> already been reported, you can request a change there.
> --
> brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
> Toronto, Ontario, CA



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