Setting Up svn+ssh on Windows
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2014.03.04

Introduction
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  This article describes how to setup access to subversion
  repositories over SSH.

Method
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  1. Download putty and setup an SSH session named "server".

  2. Put the login (username) in Connection->Data->Auto-login username

  3. Put SSH the key in Connection->SSH->Auth->Private key file for
  authentication

  4. Download and install TortoiseSVN. You need the TortoisePlink.exe
     (pops up password prompt for the key password) because plink.exe
     from putty works only for keys without password.

  5. Edit c:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Subversion/config, in
     section [tunnels] put:

    ssh=TortoisePlink.exe

  if the exe is in your PATH or put the whole path in the form c:/path/to/file

  6. Access repository with svn+ssh://server/path/to/repo, where
     "server" is the name of the putty session.

  7. Alternatively use pageant from putty to load the SSH key.