How to enable verbose or debug on SVN checkout SSH

Question

I'm running an svn co svn+ssh:// to checkout a large repository. It appears to be hanging for a long time without any feedback.

svn co svn+ssh://example.com/test test

How can I enable a verbose or debug mode for svn + ssh?

Answer 1

Exporting a SVN_SSH variable to ssh -v

export SVN_SSH="ssh -v "

will display verbose debug info on a svn+ssh:// checkout:

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to example.com port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
...

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