Verbose logging for svn ssh connection

Question

Does anyone one know how get SVN to log the details of the ssh connection when operating through an ssh connection?

When I can't connect svn always gives me:

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

I've looked in the [tunnels] section of the config and nothing is currently enabled. It seems like you can specify how ssh gets called and I tried specifying a -v to ssh through this method but it seemed to have no effect. What I really want is -v output for ssh when SVN tries to connect. Although any additional logging would be good.

How do I get verbose ssh logging through SVN?

I am using SVN at the command line on linux.

Answer 1

If you are using *nix like systems or cygwin on windows, you can try with this method:

$ export SVN_SSH="ssh -v "
$ svn checkout svn+ssh://xyz