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Don't forget the ACLs

Nothing worked for me until I stripped the file of ACLs and reset the permissions.

#remove ACLs
setfacl -b ~/.ssh/config

#reset permissions
chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/config

You can use getfacl to view the current ACL on a file.

getfacl ~/.ssh/config

Before I removed the ACLs (Broken):

# owner: Administrators
# group: None
user::rw-
group::---
group:Authenticated Users:rwx
group:SYSTEM:rwx
mask:rwx
other:---

After: (working)

# file: config
# owner: myusername
# group: None
user::rw-
group::---
other:---

Head over to http://code.google.com/p/mintty/ and download the latest zip file containing the mintty msys package. As of 18 Oct 2014, the latest version is mintty-1.1.3-msys.zip

Extract mintty.exe from the zip file and copy it to the bin folder where you installed git. If you installed git to the default location, the path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin

Next right click on the windows shortcut for Git Bash. Change the target to: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\mintty.exe" /bin/sh --login -i. If you installed git to a different location, you will need to use your installed path.

Now clicking on the Git Bash shortcut should open mintty.