Posts tagged git

Accessing git over ssh on a non-standard port

Nov 24th

Posted by matthew in Technical HOWTOs

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Simple ssh access to a git repo can be sufficient for a small dev team–but what if you’re using a non-standard ssh port?

The solution–do as Linus says. Use ~/.ssh/config.

My config now looks like this:

Host my.servername.org
  Port 1234

Remember that ~/.ssh needs to be 700 (read/write/execute for only the owner), and the files inside are all 600:

$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
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Installing git with MacPorts

Nov 15th

Posted by matthew in Technical HOWTOs

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The Good: MacPorts makes git, the new source version control system hotness, available to Mac users.

The Bad: MacPorts sometimes has attitude, and poops out trying to compile or install packages.

The Ugly: MacPorts doesn’t tell you how to fix it.

So here was what I saw:

mrm@whack:~$ port search git
cogito     devel/cogito   0.18.2   Git core and cogito tools to provide a fully-distributed SCM
git-core   devel/git-core 1.6.0.4  A fast version control system
qgit       devel/qgit     2.2      A graphical interface to git repositories
stgit      devel/stgit    0.14.3   Push/pop utility on top of GIT
cgit       www/cgit       0.8      A fast web interface for the git source code management system

Great. I’ll install git-core. What additional goodies are there?

mrm@whack:~$ port info git-core
git-core 1.6.0.4, devel/git-core (Variants: universal, doc, gitweb, svn, bash_completion)

http://git.or.cz/

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed open source version control system focusing on speed and efficiency.

Library Dependencies: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, libiconv
Runtime Dependencies: rsync, perl5.8, p5-error
Platforms: darwin
Maintainers: bryan@larsen.st maccheck@gmail.com openmaintainer@macports.org

OK, so I want svn and doc and bash_completion extras:

mrm@whack:~$ sudo port install git-core +svn +doc +bash_completion +gitweb
...
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: p5-svn-simple subversion-perlbindings subversion p5-term-readkey rsync popt
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

So we’re now at the bad and ugly. When ports cops attitude, run these two commands:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated

and wait. If there are any failures, look at the package that failed, and restart the installation of that package. Once that’s completed, re-do the original port install git ... command.

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