svn+ssh issues on Windows due to passing -q by default

[Magnus Torfason <zu...@gmail.com>]

Hi, I sent an email a while ago detailing problems with connecting from 
a Windows client to a *nix server over ssh:

On 1/11/2010 5:20 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Magnus Torfason wrote on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 at 11:53 -0500:
>> 1: svnsync (through SSVN):
>>
>> A svnsync process from an external server that had always worked did no
>> longer complete successfully. The error message was:
>>
>>    plink: unknown option "-q"
>>    Connection terminated
>>
>
> We added the '-q' to the default value of the 'ssh' svn+*:// scheme some
> time ago.  The help now reads:
>
> ...
>
> Related?
>
> Daniel
> (my configuration overrides it as follows:
> 	ssh = $SVN_SSH /path/to/plink.exe -batch -ssh -2
> )
>

Yes, related.

After more testing it seems clear that this has to do with SlikSvn 
distributing an ssh.exe that does not accept the -q switch, but with the 
default setting being to pass the -q.

TortoiseSVN ships with its own version of plink, and does not suffer 
from this issue (but copying that version over does not seem to fix it 
for me).

Changing the config file to read
ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh
fixes this issue for me, but it means that TortoiseSVN also uses the 
SlikSvn plink, which is not really what I want. It seems to me that the 
best solution would be to change the behavior in the SlikSvn 
distribution for Windows, either by removing the -q from the default 
settings, or by patching the plink (named ssh.exe and presumably 
custom-built) that ships with SlikSvn.exe so that it will ignore the -q 
switch rather than throw an error.

Best,
Magnus

RE: svn+ssh issues on Windows due to passing -q by default

[Bert Huijben <be...@qqmail.nl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Torfason [mailto:zulutime.net@gmail.com]
> Sent: donderdag 11 februari 2010 19:19
> To: dev@subversion.apache.org
> Cc: Daniel Shahaf; rhuijben@open.collab.net
> Subject: svn+ssh issues on Windows due to passing -q by default
> 
> Hi, I sent an email a while ago detailing problems with connecting from
> a Windows client to a *nix server over ssh:

<snip>
> fixes this issue for me, but it means that TortoiseSVN also uses the
> SlikSvn plink, which is not really what I want. It seems to me that the
> best solution would be to change the behavior in the SlikSvn
> distribution for Windows, either by removing the -q from the default
> settings, or by patching the plink (named ssh.exe and presumably
> custom-built) that ships with SlikSvn.exe so that it will ignore the -q
> switch rather than throw an error.

SlikSVN doesn't distribute a ssh.exe. You probably got that exe from some
other place.
(I build the SlikSVN MSIs and they don't contain a ssh.exe)

SharpSvn has its own plink, but that one is not called ssh.exe. And since
the last few releases that version ignores -q.

	Bert

Re: svn+ssh issues on Windows due to passing -q by default

[Magnus Torfason <zu...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I just wanted to note that I stand corrected on the issue below. It 
turns out that SlikSvn does not distribute an ssh.exe. I must have put 
it there manually and then forgot all about it. So the message really 
should have gone to the user list, not the dev list.

Sorry about the noise.

Best,
Magnus

On 2/11/2010 1:19 PM, Magnus Torfason wrote:
> Hi, I sent an email a while ago detailing problems with connecting from
> a Windows client to a *nix server over ssh:
>
> On 1/11/2010 5:20 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Magnus Torfason wrote on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 at 11:53 -0500:
>>> 1: svnsync (through SSVN):
>>>
>>> A svnsync process from an external server that had always worked did no
>>> longer complete successfully. The error message was:
>>>
>>> plink: unknown option "-q"
>>> Connection terminated
>>>
>>
>> We added the '-q' to the default value of the 'ssh' svn+*:// scheme some
>> time ago. The help now reads:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Related?
>>
>> Daniel
>> (my configuration overrides it as follows:
>> ssh = $SVN_SSH /path/to/plink.exe -batch -ssh -2
>> )
>>
>
> Yes, related.
>
> After more testing it seems clear that this has to do with SlikSvn
> distributing an ssh.exe that does not accept the -q switch, but with the
> default setting being to pass the -q.
>
> TortoiseSVN ships with its own version of plink, and does not suffer
> from this issue (but copying that version over does not seem to fix it
> for me).
>
> Changing the config file to read
> ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh
> fixes this issue for me, but it means that TortoiseSVN also uses the
> SlikSvn plink, which is not really what I want. It seems to me that the
> best solution would be to change the behavior in the SlikSvn
> distribution for Windows, either by removing the -q from the default
> settings, or by patching the plink (named ssh.exe and presumably
> custom-built) that ships with SlikSvn.exe so that it will ignore the -q
> switch rather than throw an error.
>
> Best,
> Magnus