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I have configured SSH to be on port 20000. When I try:

svn co svn+ssh://server.com:20000/home/svn/proj1 proj1 --username jm

I get

svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option
from 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration
file. svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly

I think I need to tell SVN to use port 20000 also?

I am on Ubuntu 11.10

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You can define a new 'tunnel' in your Subversion configuration (~/.subversion/config). Find the section [tunnels] there and define something like:

[tunnels]
foo = ssh -p 20000

Afterwards you can contact your repository via the URL svn+foo://server.com/home/svn/proj1 proj1.

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Also, if you want to override the default svn+ssh protocol's port, just define ssh = ssh -p 20000. This assumes you've modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server so that Port 22 is replaced with Port 20000. –  Dogbert Sep 29 '13 at 18:01
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Whenever you need to access an ssh server on a non-default port or with a different user name, you can define an alias in ~/.ssh/config.

Host mysvn
HostName server.com
Port 20000
User jm

Then run svn co svn+ssh://mysvn/home/svn/proj1.

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