MS Visual Studio + gitolite or github via ssh

Question

I have MSVS 2013 + git 1.8.4 + git-extensions 2.47.3 on local machine and gitolite 2.3-1 on remote server

I could clone commit and push my project ([email protected]:testproject) by console tools and via git-extension GUI

But I couldn't do the same from "Team Explorer" in MSVS. Even if I clone it manually (by console tool) and add as local repository to MSVS Team Explorer, I can't commit or push, because

An error occurred. Detailed message: An error was raised by libgit2. Category = Net (Error). This transport isn't implemented. Sorry

Everything I found related is about TFS or local git integration.

Same with github project.

Is it even possible to make it work? By some console hooks or something like that?

Answer 1

The "Team Explorer" uses the Git integration added with Visual Studio 2013.
See "Clone a remote Git repository from a third-party service".

With that Git native integration in Visual Studio, only https is supported.
Ssh isn't yet supported.

This MSDN blog post stated in October 2013:

As of this writing, Visual Studio 2013 does not have support for ssh-based remotes.
If you have a Git remote that uses SSH and you try to perform a network operation in Visual Studio, you’ll get the message “This transport isn’t implemented. Sorry.” (This message comes from the libgit2 library.)
I don’t have a timeline for when support for SSH remotes might be implemented in Visual Studio.

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Update Oct. 2015:

However, as Vladimir Koltunov mentions below, libgit2 is starting (Q4 2015) to be built (for VS 2015) with ssh support in project PROGrand/git2-msvstfs-ssh-patch.

This patch for 'libgit2' allows usage of SSH public/private keys pair with ssh repositories (such as gitolite) in Visual Studio 2015