Description Alexander Gurov 2007-11-29 04:33:57 EST

I have an account at mediatemple.net where subversion is accessible only via svn+ssh. Due to the shared hosting environment, the usernames at mediatemple-hosted domains contain a percent sign (and the virtual domain name, in case the following URL is confusing to look at...the actual username is "myuser%mydomain.com"). Thus the svn+ssh URL becomes: 

svn+ssh://myuser%mydomain.com@mydomain.com/home/accountnum/users/myuser%mydomain.com/svn 

On some systems (Windows), to make SVN GUI clients work you must replace the % with %25, and on others (unix) you don't have to do this. 

This style URL works fine from Subclipse on Mac OS X (without using the %25 approach at all), but Subversive on Mac chokes with both % and %25 style URLs. 

When defining a repository with %25 approach, Subversive appears to work in some cases (connecting to the repository when doing "finish" connection validation...sort of...not without errors), but subsequently chokes trying to actually share resources into the SVN server and/or check them out. In fact, the repository setup dialog seems to require use of %25 in the URL, but then it seems to have replaced these with just a % sign upon re-opening the repository properties dialog. 

It would seem that Subversive may be overly aggressive in replacing the %25 in the persisted repository preferences, paired with not allowing a plain % sign to work in the non-path (username) portion of the URL in the first place. 

The following URL contains some discussion of the problem, but is not entirely accurate: 

http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2007/05/14/using-mediatemples-subversion-svnssh-with-eclipse

Scott Riggins