Thanks, I was able to specify the port through the SSH config.

Locally/client. In $HOME/.subversion/config

This particular issue arises when you are using a non-standard port (let’s say 12001 for sake of example) for your SSH server.

Apparently the SVN client experiences syntax errors when given a port address on a command line like this one:

svn list svn+ssh://username@domainname.com:12001/home/username/svn/myproject

So, to fix this, you need to create a client-side config file for SSH like this:

cd ~
cd .ssh
vi config (create a config file like the one that follows)
:w
:q

Config file located in ~/.ssh/config:

Host domain.com
User username
Port 12001

Then, issue your svn+ssh command WITHOUT the port like this:

svn list svn+ssh://username@domain.com/home/username/svn/myproject

That’s it!

Hope that helps.
Rick

svn+ssh://username@server.com:2222/some/directory

I don’t know whether all clients will be able to handle the port number in the URL in this format, but it works for mine. Putting the port number in the URL looks easier in general, but what I like about your approach is that it lets you change that port configuration in a central place, without having to touch any checked-out repositories. I can see this being handy if you’re in a situation where you have to mess around with your port tunneling situation frequently.

Are you sure about -R. Shouldn’t that be -L ? If I understand you correctly, you have svn server at remote-server.com running on port 443, and want to check out from it locally on 7711? If that is so, I believe it should read “-L”.

I am trying something like that
// create remote port forwarding
ssh -R 7711:localhost:443 root@remote-server.com -p 222

// checkout from our server to the remote server
svn checkout https://localhost:7711/svn/trunk /home/code

But i get svn: Propfind of ‘/svn/trunk’: 405 Method not allowed (http://localhost:7711)