This should work. I've done it in the past using PuTTy's plink.exe.
Perhaps the TortoisePlink.exe is customized for TortoiseSVN only? Do you
have spaces in the path? Have you tried forward slashes instead of
backslashes?
Per Lindberg wrote:
> Hokay. Some progress, but still no win:
>
> c:\path\to\tortoisesvn\TortoisePlink.exe me@myserver.com svnlook info
> /var/subversion/proj1
>
> does not work, TortoisePlink asks nicely for password but then
> pops up a message box: "unable to write to standard output".
>
> HOWEVER, the same operation with PuTTY's plink.exe:
>
> c:\path\to\PuTTY\plink.exe me@myserver.com svnlook info
> /var/subversion/proj1
>
> works nicely.
>
> It is of course possible to run the simpler example
>
> c:\path\to\PuTTY\plink.exe myserver.com ls
>
> So it is established that TortoisePlink.exe can't be used for this.
> But the plink.exe that comes with PuTTY shows promise.
>
> But setting the SVN_SSH environment variable to c:\path\to\PuTTY\plink.exe
> does not help. Nor to C:\path\to\PuTTY
>
> I suspect that this environment variable does not really work on Windows...
> Has anyone had success doing this on Windows?
>
>
>
>
>>Från: Kevin Williams [mailto:kevin@bantamtech.com]
>
>
>>Plink can connect using standard ssh client syntax, or it can use the
>>PuTTy GUI session names. For example, If I use PuTTy to connect to my
>>server and save a session as "myserver", I can set SVN_SSH to
>>"C:\path\to\TortoisePlink.exe" then use
>>"svn+ssh://me@myserver:/var/subversion/project1".
>
>
> You can? Not I.
>
>
>>It might help to try calling TortoisePlink.exe from the
>>command line and
>>give it a command. This would be something like
>>"C:\path\to\TortoisePlink.exe me@myserver svnlook info
>>/var/subversion/project1". If that works, then svn+ssh should work.
>
>
> Yes, that works. But svn co svn+ssh.... does not.
>
>
>
>>Per Lindberg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-=> I have tried to run the svn command-line client (e.g. svn co)
>>>>-=> on Windows, using svn+ssh:// as access method. But I can't get
>>>>-=> it to work.
>>>>
>>>>Hi Per,
>>>>
>>>>does this link help at all?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat
>>=8&id=30&artlang=
>>
>>>en
>>>
>>>Thanks, but the article does not really address the problem.
>>>(Btw: the original article is here:
>>>http://www.logemann.org/day/archives/000099.html)
>>>
>>>You see, I *can* check out files from my Subversion repository
>>>(on another server, running Linux) using one of these methods
>>>on my Windows machine:
>>>
>>>+ TortoiseSVN (using TortoisePlink.exe as SSH client)
>>> with the URL 'svn+ssh://foo.com/var/subversion/myproject'
>>>
>>>+ the 'svn co' DOS command on Windows
>>> with the URL 'https://foo.com/svn/myproject'
>>>
>>>- but *not* with the 'svn co' DOS command on Windows
>>> with the URL 'svn+ssh://foo.com/var/subversion/myproject'
>>>
>>>Note the difference: 'svn co' can use 'https' but not 'svn+ssh'.
>>>(The other URL difference is irrelevant to the problem).
>>>
>>>There *seems* to be a way to set up the 'svn' DOS command on Windows
>>>so that it can use 'svn+ssh' (at least, there *should* be :-) . The
>>>apocryphical
>>>lore whispers about an environment variable named SVN_SSH.
>>
>>But it's not
>>
>>>clearly described in any of the wizard's tomes.
>>>
>>>It appears that SVN_SSH could be set up to point at
>>
>>TortoisePlink.exe
>>
>>>that comes with TortoiseSVN. Or must it point at plink.exe
>>
>>that comes
>>
>>>with PuTTY? I have tried many different variants, no luck. Does the
>>>SVN_SSH spell work on Windows at all?
>>>
>>>(I can log in a tty session to the server with PuTTY, no problem).
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Per Lindberg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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