We use SVN with SSH because it is better than anonymous access and the HTTP setup looked complicated and difficult to use when I was setting up authenticated SVN.
Subversion uses a custom port because it is running in a docker image and we use the default SSH port for SSH access to the host.
We use the .ssh/config file to automatically select the correct port.
As a result, all our SVN externals do not specify the port number. Maybe they should. I don’t know, but it will be a huge amount of work to change them.
The result is that when I configure a job, which has externals because they all do, I can specify a port number in the top level SVN URL, but that doesn’t help me because checking out all the externals fails.
I tried setting the SVN_SSH environment variable, but maybe I need to reload Jenkins or something because it doesn’t seem to help at all.
If I create /home/jenkins/.ssh/config on the docker image, will that solve the problem? Will the Jenkins Subversion plugin pick it up? Or does it need to be in /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/config?
