XCode4 add Repository Host Unreachable?

Question

I'm trying to add a remote linux SVN repository to my project but when I enter the server address I get the message Host is unreachable.

I'm entering it like

svn://ip_address/myproject/ 

From terminal I can do this

svn list svn://ip_address/myproject/

and it shows the contents without any issues.

Answer 1

I had this problem as well in linking to a Git repository. It seems XCode has some issues with IP addresses. I found that by modifying my hosts (/private/etc/hosts on Mac) file and adding an entry for the repository's IP address does the trick.

Hosts file entry:

i.p.add.ress  serverName  #where i.p.add.ress is your ip_address

In the Location field in XCode:

svn://serverName/myproject

The comments above referencing the other question's answer doesn't cover the IP address issue. Hopefully this will fix your issue too.