MATLAB + GIT in windows

Has anyone been able to get the git push command to upload code changes to github from matlab in Windows?

Using ssh authentication, I have it working from git bash and the gui, but not from powershell or matlab.

Apparently, some people have written powershell wrappers to deal with ssh agent issues (for example: http://markembling.info/2009/09/ssh-agent-in-powershell ), but has anyone done a similar thing in matlab? The git wrappers on the file exchange don't appear to address this issue.

Answer 1

[Ben]

It appears that git push commands are hard to support in Windows because the use of ssh requires a ssh-agent daemon to be running, and it's not an obvious windows service. Some of the powershell wrappers etc. use work-arounds using tools like Cygwin.

In the end, I decided it wasn't worth the extra effort, and will use non-MATLAB tools for the git push and interactive commands (git pull works fine from within MATLAB, though!).

I've put my notes on a MATLAB workflow using git online, and welcome any comments.

[Jacob Shea]

Ben, do you have any updates to share on this issue? It's now 2+ years later and as of R2014b git is integrated into the Matlab UI. I'm running into a problem that sounds similar to what you faced.

My issue is that, with everything working from msysgit bash and gui, attempting a connection to the git server results in the error "Algorithm negotiation failed". Any ideas about that?

[Ben]

Sorry Jacob, I don't have any updates. I ended up doing my git commits outside of MATLAB.