Netbeans 5.5 PublicKey subversion repository (svn+ssh) with Cygwin on Windows

I had to checkout a project with netbeans 5.5 on win32. The subversion repository is accessable with svn+ssh. Problem: SSH access is public-key (publickey) only. Out-of-the-box it didn’t work. TortoisePlink didn’t work. In desperation I tried cygwin (which I use anyway for ssh, so the keys are already there). And it worked

• Install cygwin (c:/cygwin is assumed). Make sure you can connect by ssh with the subversion server.
• Edit %APPDATA%/Subversion/config. In the section [tunnels] add/modify a line with ssh = C:\\cygwin\\bin\\ssh.exe. Note the double backslash.
• That’s it!

This works because the cygwin ssh is directly invoked by the win32 subversion and doesn’t care about paths. It’s only responsible for the tunnel which is independent of paths.

Tags: cygwin, netbeans, public-key, publickey, ssh, svn, svn+ssh, svn-ssh

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