How to use svn+ssh with Tortoise SVN from the command line
command-line, shell, svn, tortoisesvn, windows
Solution
For svn+ssh to work with Tortoise, make sure `%SVN_SSH%` is set to your ssh client (probably plink.exe from Tortoise or Putty) and the path must be written either with forward slashes `/` or with escaped backslashes `\\`.
Try to set `%SVN_SSH%` with the absolute path of plink while escaping the backslashes, something like `C:\\Program Files\\TortoiseSVN\\bin\\TortoisePlink.exe` instead of `..\TortoisePlink.exe`
Problem
I'm having trouble trying to checkout a repo using the following syntax on a Windows 7 workstation with TortoiseSvn: ``` svn co svn+ssh://user@ip/repo . ``` What I've done to test this issue: - Modified the network settings of TortoiseSvn to point to ..\TortoisePlink.exe - Successfully established an ssh connection to the target machine with no issues - Successfully checked out repos from workstations running Ubuntu with OpenSsh When I try to do the above syntax from the command line on the Windows 7 workstation I get the error: ``` svn: E720087: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn+ssh:///user@ip/repo' svn: E720087: Can't create tunnel:The parameter is incorrect. ``` Interestingly, if I use the tortoise gui to browse to the repo I can successfully open and check out the repo. But I need to do it from the command line for scripting purposes. Any suggestions?