Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Joey Hess] > > % svn update > > svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from > > 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file. > > svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly > > > > This is a bad error message because the [tunnels] section of my subversion > > config file is entirely commented out/defaults, and none of the comments > > have a -q either. > > OK, the actual situation: the 'svn+ssh' tunnel defaults to calling > '$SVN_SSH -q -o ControlMaster=no' where $SVN_SSH defaults to 'ssh'. > (The ControlMaster part is a Debian patch that probably is not needed > anymore.) The current default config file, which you can see in > /etc/subversion/config, shows this default, commented out. Your > ~/.subversion/config probably doesn't show the -q because it was added > some years after you first ran svn. (svn doesn't update your config > file when it runs, it just writes a static file if the file doesn't > already exist.) > > Given the above, and given I don't think it'd be easy to determine from > the point that error is thrown whether the 'svn+ssh' tunnel is a > compiled default or has been changed, do you have any better > suggestions for the error? I'd be happy to improve the error in Debian > and upstream.
svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, ensure the 'ssh' item in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file does not have a -q option. maybe? -- see shy jo
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