[jwilcoxson]

I don't know why, but a lot of devs seem to just ignore ~/Library/Application Support/, where crap like this is supposed to go

[blakeyrat]

It's worse on Windows, where Git tools (including some from Microsoft themselves!) expect to see a .ssh folder in your user folder root. Wrong. Bad. Windows doesn't work that way! There's not even any contract/guarantee the user folder root is writable by the user in Windows! Sigh.

Lazy Linux developers making lazy "ports" lazily.

[Corrado]

Can confirm. Installing Git (or SSH) on Windows is frustrating beyond belief. I can't seem to ever get the .ssh folder in the correct place and when I do it doesn't make any sense (from a Windows standpoint). Grrrr...

[asveikau]

I have GIT_SSH=plink in my environment. I don't get this.

Might be an issue with the port of openssh, rather than git itself.