XCode 4 (Assembla) SVN Repository “Unable to load revisions”

Question

I\'ve been trying unsuccessfully to connect to an https assembla svn repository with the new xcode 4 IDE for an iPhone project I\'m working on.

I was able to connect

Answer 1

There is another change in xcode 4 that can contribute to svn connectivity problems and that is that the name lookup for host names only uses a dns lookup and will not see any hosts in the /etc/host file. This impacts more than svn connectivity. An example is in the iphone simulator if you are attempting to connect to a local (not in dns but in the /etc/host file) system you will not be able to see it. This would imply that issues around name lookup would impact other areas like git … The workaround is very gross you must use ip addresses in the URI. Unfortunately the xcode team decided it would be unimportant to surface this information either in the docs or in some type of error log or message. A simple test is if you can ping the host but nslookup cannot find it then xcode will also not be able to see it.