SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows
Recommended method from MSYS2 is to set db_home in /etc/nsswitch.conf to your home directory.
Credit to @VarunAgw for pointing in the right direction.
Git-for-Windows includes env in db_home, which should read your HOME bash variable, however, it is unreliable.
Figured out how to manually set my home directory in Windows XP:
- Right click "My Computer"
- Choose the "Advanced" tab
- Click the "Environmental Variables" button
- Under the "System variables" section, click "New"
- In the "Variable name" enter in "home".
- In the "Variable value" enter in the path to your profile.
To do the same via command prompt do :
setx HOME "your\path\to\home"
( Please note the suffix x - This is used to persist the change )