Win32 bzr used from within cygwin: commit to sftp repo freezes

[John Arbash Meinel]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi bzr,
> 
> I got the windows installation of bzr 1.0.0, and my checkout is bound to
> a sftp:// repository which works great from a DOS box.
> 
> But if I'm trying to commit/revert/etc. from within an xterm in cygwin,
> then bzr freezes. I found out that the ssh of the cygwin installation is
> being used (which works fine from bash without password due to
> authorized_keys2 on the server).
> 
> Can bzr be forced to use the ssh implementation used by the windows bzr
> installation, i.e. the paramiko lib?
> 
> BTW:
> after killing bzr, the locks in .bzr/branch/lock and .bzr/checkout/lock
> remained,
> but `bzr break-lock` and `bzr info -v` also seemed to freeze ;-(
> I had to remove the directories .bzr/*/lock/held manually to make it
> work again.
> 
> Thank you & have a nice day,
> Berny
> 
> 

You can use:

set BZR_SSH="paramiko"

or

export BZR_SSH="paramiko"

depending on your shell.
That will skip the detection check, and just force the implementation.

John
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