TortoiseSVN using SSH

Question

I'm having this issue when committing to SourceForge using TortoiseSVN:

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/2636/

The feedback on that page recommends using SSH to get around the problem. So, I relocated my repository to this URL per the recommendation:

svn+ssh://mikh2161@svn.code.sf.net/p/datsville/code

My username is mikh2161 and the project is called "datsville". When I try to connect it asks me for my password, which I then enter. It seems to work okay. However, the actual commit fails with this error:

Commit failed (details follow):
Stream doesn't support this capability
Polling for available data on filestream failed: Bad file descriptor

Can anyone assist me? What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64.

TortoiseSVN 1.9.0, Build 26652 - 64 Bit , 2015/08/03 19:33:09
Subversion 1.9.0, -release
apr 1.5.2
apr-util 1.5.4
serf 1.3.8
OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul 2015
zlib 1.2.8
SQLite 3.8.11.1

Answer 1

This problem is caused by the Subversion client libraries for Windows. It was introduced with version 1.9.0, and the fix will be released with 1.9.1 ^{[1] [2]} . So any windows client that is using it will not work with svn+ssh. TortoiseSVN is just one example, the same was observed with JavaHL/Subclipse, SmartSVN and the Subversion command line client itself.

Update: A downgrade to version 1.8.12 (which was released along with 1.9.0) helped in my case.^[3]

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^[1] Subversion Dev: JavaHL, 1.9: "Bad file descriptor", "Stream doesn't support this capability" errors

^[2] fixed with r1696225 (there is obviously no bug filed yet)

^[3] TortoiseSVN - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

Answer 2

Looks like svn+ssh support is broken in 1.9.0. I removed that, and used 1.8.11 instead, and it worked.