svn+ssh problem

Question

Hi ,

i have an issue when i try to do the svn checkout.

i issued the following command on my ubuntu linux box.

svn checkout svn+ssh://example.com/var/svn/site/trunk

i faced the following error .

ssh: FATAL: Illegal -o parameter "ControlMaster=no" svn: Connection closed unexpectedly

i am not sure about the error... Can any please help out regarding this........

Answer 1

Like Steve mentioned, this error is most likely due to OpenSSH lower than version 4.

Also seems like your ~/.subversion/config file contain the following section.

[tunnels] ssh = ssh -o ControlMaster=no

The section is required to get access to SVN over SSH, but the options for controlmaster would only work for OpenSSH4 or above.

HTH,