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Reputation: 11

Tortoisesvn not allowing any SVN operations on a repository

I have TortoiseSVN 1.6.17 64 bit installed on a Windows 7 machine. I am also running subversion under Cygwin and that is the SSH client tortoise is configured to use. I am able to perform SVN operations from the Cygwin command line (e.g. commit, log) and everything seems normal there.

Attempts to update, log, commit, etc. fail when I try to use tortoise with the error...

Commit failed (details follow): To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file. Network connection closed unexpectedly

I have tried to remove the -q option from the ssh command everywhere I can find it (my .subversion folder, cygwin/etc, the Settings of tortoise) but I can't seem to get any more information about what the problem is. The behavior is the same for all checked out folders on this machine. I also can't check out anything. Tortoise works fine with the remote repository on other machines.

I've tried to uninstall/re-install tortoise, but because it remembers history I assume some things were left behind somewhere. The previous version was an older 32 bit build. Something seems to be busted in the authentication process, but I haven't a clue what it might be. I've tried removing the repository from the cache settings and removing the remote machine from the known_hosts file in my .ssh folder.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2688

Answers (2)

Danny Schoemann
Danny Schoemann

Reputation: 1350

I've been battling this - and getting the same error or else:

Unable to open connection to svn. Host does not exist

I finally solved it:

Go to the Tortoise settings (can be found under Start, Program Files, etc - or run "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:settings)

On the network tab, the bottom section is labeled SSH client. Mine was set to "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\putty.exe"

Set the SSH client to "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe" or wherever your TortoisePlink.exe is hiding.

Suddenly everything works.

Upvotes: 1

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97282

  1. SVN (client or server) is not, never was and can't be SSH-client
  2. "Subversion configuration file", mentioned in error-message and used by TortoiseSVN (and other native Windows Subversion clients) is %APPDATA%\config
  3. Read SVN Book!

Upvotes: 0

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