This is why you protect it with a passphrase, which SSH asks you to do by default. Choose a good passphrase, it's encrypted on disk, and decrypted only as neede

This is why you protect it with a passphrase, which SSH asks you to do by default. Choose a good passphrase, it's encrypted on disk, and decrypted only as needed. Seriously guys, you're not even trying. Here are the instructions everyone is freaking out about, they contain an explanation of this very issue. http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/