# Miscellaneous

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## Configuration of svn+ssh

svn+ssh

The configuration of svn+ssh is not a special subcommander issue but a subversion one. The configuration is done in subversions own configuration file. Anyway, the next few sections give a short description how to configure svn+ssh with public key authentication on the different plattforms.

### Win32

svn+ssh Windows

The easiest way to run `svn+ssh` from subcommander on Win32 is to use PuTTY for handling the ssh connections. PuTTY is a free SSH client for Win32. You can download PuTTY from its web site (see ).

The `ssh` part (the scheme) in `svn+ssh` is more or less free configurable. Its an identifier subversion uses to look up the command it should use to run the svnserve process on a remote machine. For the example we add the PuTTY command as the scheme `putty` into our local subversion configuration file. We can then access our repository using `svn+putty//<server>/<repositorypath>`. It doesn't matter if our server url is given as svn+ssh. It is only important that we can access the server machine with ssh using public key authentication.

Here is what we add to the configuration file in the `tunnels` section (this is just one of several possible ssh configurations we could use):

    [tunnels]
    putty = <path>/plink.exe -ssh -2 -l <username> -i <keypath>/id_rsa.ppk

The `plink.exe` is PuTTYs command line tool. We tell it to create an `ssh` connection using the ssh protocol 2 (`-2`), our username (`-l`) we want to use to connect to the repository server and the filename (`-i`) of our private key for the ssh authentication.

Since our private key is encrypted with a pass phrase, PuTTY would ask on each call to the repository for the pass phrase to decode our private key. This would make the secure ssh connection completly unusable. The solution is another PuTTY tool called `Pageant`.

Pageant stores decoded private keys at runtime in memory. If Plink detects that Pageant is running it requests the decoded private key from it. We only need to load our private into Pageant and enter the pass phrase (one time) so it can decode it.

That's all we need to do to use `svn+putty`://.. urls to access our subversion repository over a secure ssh connection. Because we configured this in subversions configuration file, `svn+putty` will work from subcommander and it will also work with subversions command line tool.

subversion configuration file

Subversions configuration file is at `%APPDATA%\Subversion\config`. `%APPDATA%` is typically something like `C:\Documents and Settings\<yourwindowslogin>\Application Data`.

### Unix

svn+ssh Unix

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## Subcommander Website

You can find more Subcommander resources like its current version, new versions, source code or information about upcomming releases on Subcommanders web site.

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## Subcommander Source Code

The Subcommander source code is hosted in a subversion repository on subcommander.tigris.org.

The development branch ("trunk") with the latest sources is at http://subcommander.tigris.org/svn/subcommander/trunk.

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## Subcommander Mailing List

If you need help or if you have questions about subcommander or submerge you can write an email to subcommanders mailing list. Before you write an email please check the FAQ () if it already contains an answer to your question.

If you like to give some feedback or you even like to help improving subcommander in any way the mailing list is the place to start.

The mailing lists email address is:

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## Subversion

A good resource to learn more about subversion is the subversion book Version Control with Subversion. You will a find link to it on Subversions web site.

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## PuTTY

PuTTY is a free SSH client for Win32. You can use it to connect to an svn+ssh subversion repository (see ). To learn more about PuTTY or to download it go to PuTTYs web site.