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I'm using svn+ssh and I see a number of:

Killed by signal 15.

during a svn up.

Any ideas way?

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The message you are seeing is printed by ssh as a result of the fix for svn-issue #2580.

This is expected. You need to add -q to the ssh command invoked by svn, which happens by default as of 1.6.6.

Put this in ~/.subversion/config under the [tunnels] section:

ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q
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  • To make the solution work, you should put the line into [tunnels] section
    – no id
    Jul 1, 2014 at 3:19
  • Note that the fix applied to Subversion somewhere from about 1.6.5 onwards is only to the default ssh setting in your config [tunnels] section. If you have an existing installation with that set, e.g. ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o ControlMaster=no, (sans -q) then you will need to add that setting there, as the updated default will not apply.
    – javabrett
    Feb 29, 2016 at 22:15
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The correct answer is:

Add the -q parameter after  "$SVN_SSH ssh" in ~/.subversion/config

In plain English:

If your ~/.subversion/config already has such a line, then edit the line. Else add it.

So, if you are sure there is no occurrence of ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh then add a new line:

ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q 

If the line already exists, typically as ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o ControlMaster=no then edit it to read ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no

Warning: The order of the parameters seems to matter. ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no works, but ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o -q ControlMaster=no fails with the message command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: -q.

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    The order matters because 'ControlMaster=no' is a parameter of -o. -o is not a stand-alone flag
    – Allan Jude
    Jul 10, 2015 at 16:45
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 ~/.subversion/config: ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q

This doesn't work - I think this is the fix for the previous bug.

[n@g ~]$ svn up /opt/
At revision 1492.
Killed by signal 15.
[n@g ~]$ grep "ssh =" ~/.subversion/config
ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q
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If it isnt working perhaps you are invoking ssh using something other than the $SVN_SSH variable. http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/764/528/ has an example of that.

regarding the warning:

"Warning: The order of the parameters seems to matter. ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no works, but ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o -q ControlMaster=no fails with the message command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: -q."

that is because you placed the -q after the -o which is looking for the option (ControlMaster=no) specified by -o. if you placed the -q after the option, it will work. ie

ssh = $SVN_SSH ssh -o ControlMaster=no -q

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