[darcs-users] darcs and PuTTY

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 19:17 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently dealing with TortoiseDarcs.  TortoiseDarcs uses some PuTTY
> binaries to do all the SSH stuff.  Until recently, I used darcs 1.0.8 with
> TortoiseDarcs, and everything seemed to work fine.
>
> Now I have switched to a pre-release of the upcoming TortoiseDarcs version,
> and since that switch, I'm unable to push any patches.  It seems as if
> ssh.exe cannot successfully be executed because darcs uses options, the
> PuTTY SSH client (plink) doesn't understand.
>
> When still working with darcs 1.0.8, I already noticed the messages “plink:
> unknown option "-O"”.  Because everything seemed to be okay, I didn't pay
> much attention to this.  Now I've realized that this isn't just a warning
> message but an error message, meaning the SSH client always aborts when
> this message shows up.  Interestingly, this didn't seem to cause any harm.
>
> With the new version of TortoiseDarcs which uses a post-1.0.8 version of
> darcs, things are worse.  At the beginning, plink outputs the above
> message. Then I have the chance to choose which patches I want to push. 
> After that, I get the message “plink: unkown option "-q"” and afterwards
> “Pushing to "<user>@<host>:<path>"...”.  Unfortunately, nothing is pushed. 
> Actually, the darcs binary on the server is not called at all.
>
> Is anybody able to help me with this?
>
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang

Hello,

can nobody comment on this?  The point is that darcs is obviously not 
compatible with PuTTY but expects ssh to use the option and argument syntax 
of OpenSSH.  Is nobody of the PuTTY users really concerned about ssh aborting 
every time (s)he does a darcs push or pull, or concerned about the next 
version of darcs possibly not working with PuTTY?

Could someone of the darcs hackers please comment on the question what kind of 
ssh client darcs expects and on how to make darcs work with PuTTY?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang