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Re: SV: How can I set up access via svn+ssh on Windows?

From: Kevin Carlin <kcarlin_at_bifrost.com>
Date: 2004-12-28 01:17:43 CET

I used cygwin's ssh and the only hitch was to fixup ~/.ssh/config to
include "User kcarlin" (since Windows XP uses a less UNIX friendly user ID).

Kevin Williams wrote:

> 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".
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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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