Re: svn+ssh on mingw32?

[Andrew Ruder]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:15:20PM +0800, Sheldon Gill wrote:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >On 8 Feb 2006, at 10:45, Sheldon Gill wrote:
> >
> >>Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >>>I expect so ... but the question is ... why?
> >>>My ssh connection works fine.
> >>>svn+ssh works fine on linux.
> >>>So the issue must be something to do with the subversion client ... 
> >>>my guess is it's not picking up the ssh configuration from ~/.ssh for 
> >>>some reason, but I haven't figured out how/why that can be the case.  
> >>>I also don't see how a problem with the command-line client could 
> >>>also effect the TortoiseSVN stuff ... which I configured completely 
> >>>independently using Putty stuff rather than OpenSSH stuff.  That's 
> >>>two different ssh implementations being used and both giving the same 
> >>>error.
> >>
> >>Maybe this will help:
> >>
> >>export SVN_SSH=ssh -l rfm -i ~/.ssh/your_key
> >
> >Thanks ... but I've just now got it working, and I'm inclined to stick 
> >with what I've got.
> >
> >I edited 'C:/Documents and Settings/richard/Application 
> >Data/Subversion/config'  and added a line to explicitly specify the path 
> >to my mingw32/msys copy of ssh ...
> >
> >'ssh = $SVN_SSH C:/msys/1.0/bin/ssh.exe'
> 
> Actually, editing [tunnels] in subversion config was my next suggestion.
> 
> For what its worth, here's a summary for getting PuTTY going:
> 
> * download and install svn client
> * download and install putty, plink, pageant...
> 
>   Make sure both are in your path somewhere. I like \Program Files\Bin\
> 
> * Generate a key using puttygen
>   (It can also import existing keys from elsewhere...)
>   Save it somewhere as <keyfile.ppk>
> 
> * Tell GNA.org about the key and wait an hour
> * Check ssh access
> 
>   plink -v -ssh -l <username> -i <keyfile.ppk> svn.gna.org
> 
> * Edit Subversion configuration %USERPROFILE%\Application 
> Data\Subversion\config
> 
>   [tunnels]
>   putty = plink -ssh -l <username>
> 
> * Launch pageant and add your key
> 
> * Check subversion access
> 
>   svn list svn+putty://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep

You'll probably want to figure out how to get it so you can checkout
with svn+ssh.  The /devmodules is configured such that it checks the
externals out with svn+ssh.  I got windows working and booted into this
morning, when I get home this evening, hopefully I am able to check
things out (no pun intended) ;)

- Andy

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Andrew Ruder
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