Versions App and Site5 SVN
Well, I signed up for the Versions app beta and finally got it about a bit over a month ago. I installed it and then minutes later, I clicked it off, fired off an email to their feedback address and removed it from my dock, expecting never to use it again. You see, the problem was I couldn’t get it to work with my Site5 SVN setup. I received an email back from the beta team and now it’s working and back in my dock.
Version’s website mentions a feature: svn+ssh:// key pairs are unnecessary. However, the first time I tried to connect to my repository on Site5, I got an error message “Connection closed unexpectedly.” I tried many different login permutations, but nothing worked. And so I was resigned to looking into other more painful Mac SVN clients like SvnX.
The email today alerted me to newest beta update and so I downloaded the update and tried again. No beans. Following a tutorial on setting up SVN on Site5 I was still getting the same error. There was still no way to point to the private key I had set up. After re-reading the Versions website (I really hope some documentation is on the way), I realized I was going about it the wrong way. Assuming you’ve already setup SVN on your Site5 account, here’s the correct way to connect to your Site5 SVN repository without creating key pairs:
Location: svn+ssh://[Site5 username]@www.[domain name]/[path to repository]
Example: svn+ssh://username@www.versions.com/home/username/svn/project
Username: [Site5 username]
Password: [Site5 password]
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You’ve missed one minor detail which I found documented in a dark corner of Versions Google Group.
in your Subversion config file: ~/.subversion/config
you need to change the following line:
ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o ControlMaster=no
to
ssh = $SVN_SSH /usr/bin/ssh -o ControlMaster=no
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