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Need of PuttY

hrushikesh vyas
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November 11, 2013

Why we need to install PuTTY for BitBucket?

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You would generally use PuTTY to be able to connect to your repository using SSH.

For example, when you git clone a git:// repository, it's using SSH to connect.

You don't have to use it as you can also access your repository using http/https.

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November 11, 2013

How PuTTY is helpful with BitBucket? As i am moving my repository to BitBucket with mercurial & my developers will commit using Tortoise Hg then what is the use of PuttY in BitBucket?

Why BitBucket requires to install PuTTY as Step?

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