Subversion with a custom port on OS X

Setting up subversion to checkout and over a custom port number is one of those tasks that I do once every six months, and immediately forget, then I waste time a’Googling to find it again.

Open up subversion’s config file

mate /Users/myuser/.subversion/config

Then find the section marked [tunnels], and add a line naming your custom port (replacing ‘1234′ with the port number)

myproject = ssh -p 1234

Then when you checkout your project you replace svn+ssh with svn+myproject

svn checkout svn+myproject://myuser@mydomain.com/home/myuser/data/svn/myproject/trunk .

That’s it!