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Archive for April, 2010

Last week I showed you how to install GitExtensions to access Gitosis and promised that I’d show you how to get this all working when Gitosis is running SSH on an alternate port.

There are several reasons why you might want to run SSH on an alternate port.  In my case it is because my ISP blocks incoming traffic on the lower ports and I want to be able to access my computers using SSH’s tunneling feature when I’m on the road.

The trick lies in a feature of Putty.  If you want to do this, you’ll need to install the Putty.exe 

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I was recently sold on the idea of replacing SubVersion as my version control of choice and moving to GIT, or at least installing GIT and seeing for myself if it is that much better than SubVersion.  The first step was to install GIT on my computers so that I could play with it.

Installing GIT on my 2008 server was relatively painless since everything on the server runs under Cygwin.  I followed the well written instructions here:

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I received the following question a few days ago but I’ve been so busy with billable work that I just haven’t had a chance to answer it until now.  Actually, I’m still busy, but I hate letting these questions go for too long.

“Right now I am working on a project where I have to screen a user.  This is a multi-step process.  At the end of the process I store the data back to the system. Currently, I am storing all the options a user will select in a session variable and then finally using them at the last step. Can you please suggest a better way to store this temporary data that does not require using a session? This type of situation comes up a lot.  We’ve used multiview to get it working. But this does not seem to be viable in all situations.”

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