“Network connection closed unexpectedly” upon svn checkout

Question

When I attempt to checkout:

svn checkout svn+ssh://serveradmin%foo@foo.com/home/87292/data/svn/repository/trunk .

I get this (unhelpful) er

Answer 1

If you're using Putty, it saves your login credentials thus might make tortoise give the following error when you try to checkout: Connection closed unexpectedly. If this occurs open up putty and click on default settings so that the Host Name is loaded. Clear the host name and save. This worked for me...