[darcs-users] darcs and PuTTY

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Hello,

I'm currently dealing with TortoiseDarcs.  TortoiseDarcs uses some PuTTY 
binaries to do all the SSH stuff.  Until recently, I used darcs 1.0.8 with 
TortoiseDarcs, and everything seemed to work fine.

Now I have switched to a pre-release of the upcoming TortoiseDarcs version, 
and since that switch, I'm unable to push any patches.  It seems as if 
ssh.exe cannot successfully be executed because darcs uses options, the PuTTY 
SSH client (plink) doesn't understand.

When still working with darcs 1.0.8, I already noticed the messages “plink: 
unknown option "-O"”.  Because everything seemed to be okay, I didn't pay 
much attention to this.  Now I've realized that this isn't just a warning 
message but an error message, meaning the SSH client always aborts when this 
message shows up.  Interestingly, this didn't seem to cause any harm.

With the new version of TortoiseDarcs which uses a post-1.0.8 version of 
darcs, things are worse.  At the beginning, plink outputs the above message.  
Then I have the chance to choose which patches I want to push.  After that, I 
get the message “plink: unkown option "-q"” and afterwards “Pushing to  
"<user>@<host>:<path>"...”.  Unfortunately, nothing is pushed.  Actually, the 
darcs binary on the server is not called at all.

Is anybody able to help me with this?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang