on *nix machines, the passphrases could be saved with the keychain at ease.
on windows machines, the key could be added to ssh-agent. then while the ssh-agent is running, it will save the hassle to keep asking for passphrases during git operations.
here are the steps:
in git bash, add below to have the key added to ssh-agent on bash start:
env=~/.ssh/agent.env
agent_load_env () { test -f "$env" && . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }
agent_start () {
(umask 077; ssh-agent >| "$env") . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }
agent_load_env
# agent_run_state: 0=agent running w/ key; 1=agent w/o key; 2= agent not running agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
if [ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
agent_start
ssh-add #the path to the private key; ssh-add ~/.ssh/gitlab
elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
ssh-add #the path to the private key; ssh-add ~/.ssh/gitlab
fi
unset env
