TortoiseSVN "Encountered an improper argument"

Question

I am trying to checkout an SVN repository with TortoiseSVN on windows server 2008. I get the error message "Encountered an improper argument" during checkout and that is all. Any idea what could be the problem here?

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Windows 7 64 bit, with version 1.7.2 of Tortoise SVN. I uninstalled it and installed 1.7.1, and that worked around the problem. (There is an Older Versions link at the bottom of the downloads page)

Answer 2

This problem is solved in the new 1.7.3 version. Tested on win7 x64.

Answer 3

This appears to be an bug related to server side certificates.

On a clean install of windows 7 64bit I got the same crash when browsing to an https site.

When running 1.7.1 (install from here)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/1.7.1/Application/

it brought up a warning about my invalid certificate which I could accept permanently, and it now works. 1.7.2 crashes and does not bring up the warning.