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Home » Archives » July 2004 » Subversion troubles: SVN+SSH=PITA

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07/21/2004: "Subversion troubles: SVN+SSH=PITA"


I have abandoned running Subversion on my Red Hat Linux 9.0 box in tunneling mode using SSH. I don't know what the problem is, but since it's not a critical configuration for me at present, I have gone back to running a simple svnserve on a Windows server on my local network.

The reason? This morning, for the second or third time, I got this: Connection closed unexpectedly, which causes my repository to need to be recovered, and I decided I'd had enough for now. The nice folks on the Subversion mailing lists think it's an SSH layer problem, and I'm inclined to believe them. In the meantime, to avoid the problem, I'm back to Windows. That means that my server is not accessible from the outside world right now, but I'll live.

Later, when I have more patience and a greater need, I'll get it up and working again. Pointers to HOWTO documentation are appreciated.

Replies: 2 Comments

on Saturday, July 24th, Craig Demyanovich said

I've only just begun to use Subversion at work, but I've had success so far with svn+ssh. The server is running Fedora Core 2 and Subversion 1.0.4-2 (i.e., 1.0.5), and the client is running Windows XP SP1a. I've used TortoiseSVN and the command line successfully. The subclipse plugin for Eclipse has been the stumbling block for me, with some successes and some failures. For my configuration, I relied on the section "Supporting Multiple Repository Access Methods" in Chapter 6 of the Subversion book for my server and the Subversion users mailing list for how to make SSH work on Windows [1]. Feel free to contact me with questions.

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=13453

on Saturday, July 24th, Craig Demyanovich said

I've only just begun to use Subversion at work, but I've had success so far with svn+ssh. The server is running Fedora Core 2 and Subversion 1.0.4-2 (i.e., 1.0.5), and the client is running Windows XP SP1a. I've used TortoiseSVN and the command line successfully. The subclipse plugin for Eclipse has been the stumbling block for me, with some successes and some failures. For my configuration, I relied on the section "Supporting Multiple Repository Access Methods" in Chapter 6 of the Subversion book for my server and the Subversion users mailing list for how to make SSH work on Windows [1]. Feel free to contact me with questions.

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=13453