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Hack It! #1 - Change the TortoiseSVN SSH port

I used to have a boss who was particularly fond of the ‘quick hack’. So much so that many of us used to cough “Hack It!” whenever he was around. We found this endlessly amusing. This segment is dedicated to him.

TortoiseSVN is really great. Best source control client ever. However, the svn+ssh protocol doesn’t support a non-standard SSH port. e.g. svn+ssh://me@myserver.com:9022/. That’s a bummer, since my employer just changed the SSH port.

In order to Hack It! (TM), just go to TortoiseSVN->Settings->Network and set the SSH client to

C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe -P 9022

Winner.

This is a hack because if you have other repositories they will also start connecting to this funky port. Non-hack suggestions welcome.

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7 Responses to “Hack It! #1 - Change the TortoiseSVN SSH port”

  1. Arthur Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Thanks for this quick fix, it worked out fine for me :)

    One thing to point out though;

    This is not protocol-related but rather tortoisesvn making an ass out of itself (which otherwise is a fine program).

    If it was protocol-related you wouldn’t be able to Hack It (TM) in this way and it would also give problems under every other environment, which it doesn’t.

    I hope they add proper url parsing and / or a port selector soon.

    Thanks,
    – Arthur.

  2. peter Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Hi Arthur,

    Thanks for the correction regarding the cause of the issue - good point. The fault lies with TortoiseSVN rather than the actual protocol.

    You’d think it would be a relatively easy fix, but in the meantime, just Hack It! (TM)

  3. Unformatt Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Thanks for this - I created a batch script which you can point Tortoise at and it will pluck out the port for you and pass it to TortoisePlink

    http://unformatt.com/news/non-standard-ssh-ports-with-tortoise-svn/

  4. the__phoenix Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Thank you very much for this hack!

  5. Opensource knowledge » Blog Archive » Tortoise SVN port ssh change 443 Says:
    February 15th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

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  6. Stuart Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Thanks for this, works great - I’ve copied your blog and put into mine, changed a few things to point to 443 as a port - but I’ve credited you for this and I reference this on the post.

    ref : http://www.opensource-knowledge.com/?p=45

  7. Gøran Says:
    April 11th, 2009 at 4:33 am

    Thanks for the tip! This led me to try for a more dynamic solution and I’ve tried a different approach, it seems to work (”seems” cause I’ve only tested it against one subversion server). The help message for putty link (and thereby TortoisePlink.exe), states that “host” in the url may be a saved Putty session. This means that you can save a putty session towards your nonstandard ssh server as e.g. “mysvn” using a different ssh port, and then use a standard svn+ssh url to access it, e.g: svn+ssh://user@mysvn/svn/code

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