TortoiseSVN "Encountered an improper argument"

Question

I am trying to checkout an SVN repository with TortoiseSVN on windows server 2008. I get the error message "Encountered an improper argument" during checkout and that is all. Any idea what could be the problem here?

Answer 1

This problem is solved in the new 1.7.3 version. Tested on win7 x64.

Answer 2

user1092552 just said it. The problem seems to be with the certificate acceptance dialog. On 1.7.2 it doesn't show and on its place we get the "Encountered an improper argument" error message.

What I did was:

1. uninstall 1.7.2
2. install 1.7.1
3. connect to my repository and accept the certificate permanently
4. update to 1.7.2

This way the certificate is already accepted and the dialog will no longer be requested. Everything works as expexted.

Cheers!
Alex

Answer 3

This appears to be an bug related to server side certificates.

On a clean install of windows 7 64bit I got the same crash when browsing to an https site.

When running 1.7.1 (install from here)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/1.7.1/Application/

it brought up a warning about my invalid certificate which I could accept permanently, and it now works. 1.7.2 crashes and does not bring up the warning.

Answer 4

I had the same problem on Windows 7 64 bit, with version 1.7.2 of Tortoise SVN. I uninstalled it and installed 1.7.1, and that worked around the problem. (There is an Older Versions link at the bottom of the downloads page)

Answer 5

You could try this, from http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2010-03/0191.shtml

Configure your virus scanner to leave the tortoiseproc.exe process alone and make sure it doesn't 'sanitize' the network traffic.