How to prevent that the password to decrypt the private key has to be entered every time when using Git Bash on Windows?

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For Windows users, just a note that this is how I set up the Git Bash environment to log me in once when I start it up. I edit my ~/.bashrc file:

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

So when I start Git Bash, it looks like:

Welcome to Git (version 1.7.8-preview20111206)
(etc)
Agent pid 3376
Enter passphrase for /c/Users/starmonkey/.ssh/id_dsa:
Identity added: /c/Users/starmonkey/.ssh/id_dsa (/c/Users/starmonkey/.ssh/id_dsa)

And now I can ssh to other servers without logging in every time.

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