[SVN-2694] svn needs to accept path to svnserve - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: Open
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: ---
Fix Version/s: unscheduled
Component/s: cmdline client
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Environment:

Windows XP

Description

When svnserv is located in a non-standard place and users are not using OpenSSH,
it's important for us to be able to specify the path to svnserv so that we don't
have to use ssh keys.  ssh keys work fine in openssh environments, but not so in
Windows without Cygwin and/or OpenSSH.

So, instead of having to set 

SVNROOT and SVN_SSH, we could:

svn co --path-to-svnserv=/x/apps/bin/svnserv svn+ssh://hostname/path/to/files

Even if I were using OpenSSH, when the remote site has multiple versions of svn
actively in use, not being able to specify the path to svnserv makes it more
difficult to interract with the remote site.

Original issue reported by kbenton