Fix Invalid Port Number Error with TortoiseSVN and PuTTY
I just wasted an hour on this, so I hope that explaining the solution here will help someone. If you’re using TortoiseSVN and PuTTY, perhaps using a private key created with PuTTYgen (like me), then this probably applies to you. I’m using Windows XP Pro, but Home is probably the same. I didn’t have this problem before because I just used cygwin’s ssh.exe which worked fine.
PuTTY Internal Error
Invalid Port Number
For TortoiseSVN’s SSH cilent, leave the box blank. Do not choose putty.exe, that doesn’t work. Blank is fine, TortoisePlink is fine. Otherwise you see the error above. When you enter the URL to the repository, use the PuTTY saved session name instead of the server name. For example, if your session is MyConnection, use MyConnection for the server instead of, for example, svn.osafoundation.org.
Thank you so much….great advise ;)
Thanks for this post! It helps me a lot with the SVN and SSH :)
Thanks for this blog post. only place I figured out the issues I encountered. Should be stated in the manual.
This needs to be published for sure. I screwed around with it for an hour, then googled it…found your post, and thanks!
Thanks Elliot! That is very helpful!
Thank you, very much!
I spent a lot of time trying to use TotoiseSVN with ssh on a port other than 22.
And now I found this page.
It helps me so much!!!
thank you sooooo much! i already drove crazy!!
thx
cheers stefan
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hey, thought I’d share what worked for me – thank you for getting me on the right track.
in TortoiseSVN>Settings>Network, make sure that “TortoisePlink.exe” is in the SSH field. Even leaving it empty didn’t work for me.
on checkout, here was my string:
svn+ssh://[email protected]/path/to/repo
I had also saved a session in Putty called “myserver.com” with my username information.
This was the result of a bunch of trial and error! Hope it works for you.
Oh god, thank you. I completely forgot I set putty in the options!
Thanks, really helped me out!
Very useful for me!
Respect from Russia! =)
Thanks for saving me hours…
Thank you. It worked before, but now I’m having trouble again with version 1.4.1. This tame it says first “unable to write to standard output (stderr) and after that “connection closend unexpetdly”. Can you help?
problem fixed:
http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2006-02/0422.shtml
Elliot
Your are a legend :) , this has saved me hours to figure out why my conn was not working with tortoise/putty.
Cheers George
Thanks for being the good soul to publish this information.
Thanks from here as well :)
You’re my hero!
I’m going to add my thanks to the long list already here. If only I found your site hours ago… I was up and running with a minute of reading this page :)
Aside — like your WP theme. Which reminds me that mine is in need of an overhaul…
Thanks a lot, this saved me !!!
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Thanks. It was very helpfull for me!
Oh man,
You saved the day. This must definitely put in the manual…
regards,
prax
Great!! Thanks a lot!! :-)