Patch-tag is now https safe, so you can access your projects with cryptographic security. Just use https style urls when interacting with patch-tag.
By the way — for you code shops with mission critical, high-value, national security endangering repos hosted at patch-tag — https isn’t completely safe.
You could, for instance, get your password sniffed by a [...]
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https repos for patch-tag
Posted in Product Updates, Tips and Tricks on February 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
HOWTO: Setup Windows for use with darcs2 and Patch-Tag
Posted in Tips and Tricks, tagged darcs, pageant, patch-tag, putty on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought that Windows users could use an up-to-date howto on getting Darcs up and running. First I will show what needs to be downloaded. Then I will describe the configuration tweaks that need to be performed.
Required Downloads
PuTTY, Plink, PSCP, PSFTP, Pageant, and PuTTYgen executables
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Darcs 2.2.1
http://homepage.mac.com/kirby81_it/darcs/darcs-2.2.1-win1.zip
(see Darcs Binaries for more info)
Required Configuration Tweaks
Create a new [...]
How to get around firewalls using Patch-Tag
Posted in Product Updates, Tips and Tricks, tagged darcs, firewalls, ssh on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We have been tweaking the retrieval parameters for repository access via SSH. Did you know you can get around firewalls that block port 22? Thats right, we have now added support for this.
To successfully circumvent a firewall which blocks port 22, you can use port 443 (most firewalls will let this through, it is the [...]
