svn+ssh on Win32

I'm trying to get svn+ssh working on Win32 after having so many problems
with the http access protocol. Yet another timeout on a large commit that
corrupted the repository. http-compression set to "no". An attempt to
checkout a new working copy after the timeout on commit resulted in half a
working copy before getting a chunk read error.

I'm using plink.exe from PuTTY release 0.53b. I am using the official
distributions of Subversion 0.25.0 on Win32 and Linux.

The %APPDATA%\Subversion\config file contains the following lines

[tunnels]
ssh = plink.exe -l svn

'svn' is the account on the Linux box that owns the repository. plink.exe
is in %PATH% (it's in the same directory as svn.exe). I try to checkout a
working copy of the test repository with the following command.

D:\temp>svn co svn+ssh://192.168.1.1/usr/local/repos/test

On Linux this command works fine. On Win32 this command just waits around
infinitely with no response at all. I have to Ctrl-C to exit, whereupon it
prints out

svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly

If I execute the following command (which is what I believe svn is trying to
do)...

D:\temp>plink.exe -l svn 192.168.1.1 svnserve -t

...then I get the expected response from the svnserve process.

( success ( 1 1 ( ANONYMOUS EXTERNAL ) ( ) ) )

I also tried it with %SVN_SSH% set to "plink.exe -l svn". Same result
(infinite wait).

There is also an infinite wait if the client cannot find ssh.exe or the
executable specified in the config file or %SVN_SSH%. No error message
given. It must be given two Ctrl-C's to exit whereupon it prints nothing.

What would be causing an infinite wait? Why would svn not report an error
if it cannot find the defined ssh executable?

Sly

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Received on Sun Jul 20 15:24:29 2003