VS Code remote development tool error - An SSH installation couldn't be found

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I ran into an error when running Remote - SSH in Visual Studio Code on Windows. The error shows that an SSH installation couldn’t be found, but I’ve installed the git client. Finally I found some useful info in the doc:

VS Code will look for the ssh command in the PATH. Failing that, on Windows it will attempt to find ssh.exe in the default Git for Windows install path. You can also specifically tell VS Code where to find the SSH client by adding the remote.SSH.path property to settings.json.

My git client was not installed in the default path, thus VS Code couldn’t find the ssh command. So I added the remote.SSH.path property to settings.json and problem solved.

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