This section is based on the descriptions above and will bring some examples for the usage with TortoiseGit (and plink).
The examples assume that you want to clone git@example.com:/test.git.
Start PuTTY, go to Connection->SSH->Auth and select your key. Then go to Session, select Default Settings and hit .
Now PuTTY (TortoiseGit and plink) will try to use this key for all new connections (no need to configure it in TortoiseGit). If the PuTTY agent is running, putty and plink try to use an already loaded key, but will ask for the password themselves (as a fallback).
Start PuTTY, fill in the remote host name (example.com here) in the Host Name-field and into the Saved Sessions field. Change the port number to the number you need and click on . Now, when TortoiseGit/plink uses this host name and the port is automatically loaded from the session.
Start PuTTY, fill in the remote host name (example.com here) in the Host Name-field and put the remote host name followed by e.g. a number into the Saved Sessions field (e.g. example.com1 or whatever you like). Change the port number to the number you need and click on .
Now, when you want to use this saved session use example.com1 as the remote host name: Clone git@example.com1:/test.git. Plink detects that this is a saved session and loads the stored remote host name and port from the session.
You can create several sessions for a server with different session names, but make sure you do not use the remote host name (example.com here) as the exact session name, otherwise these settings will be the default ones if you try to connect to the server (example.com).
Start PuTTY, fill in the remote host name (example.com here) in the Host Name-field and put the remote host name followed by e.g. a number into the Saved Sessions field (e.g. example.com1 or whatever you like). Go to Connection->SSH->Auth and select the key which should be used for this connection. Now go back to Session and hit .
Now, when you want to use this saved session use example.com1 as the remote host name: Clone git@example.com1:/test.git. Plink detects that this is a saved session and loads the stored remote host name and SSH key from the session.