svn+ssh error

If you get an error like:

ssh: example.org:: No address associated with nodename
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly

Make sure your repository is svn+ssh://example.org/repository, and not svn+ssh://example.org:/repository. Subversion doesn’t like that ssh-style colon, but it will still let you check out a project. It just breaks later…

16 March 2006