Here is a line from the debug log...

[2016-09-08 13:08:37.01053] chat: ssh
  ["-oNumberOfPasswordPrompts=0","-oStrictHostKeyChecking=no",
   "9553@git-annex-.usw.2Ds009.2Ersync.2Enet-9553_22_annex",
   "mkdir -p .ssh;touch .ssh/authorized_keys;dd of=.ssh/authorized_keys oflag=append conv=notrunc;mkdir -p annex"]

The hostname I entered was ordinary: usw-s009.rsync.net... but as you can see, the user@host:port string is mangled.

I'm using git tag 6.20160907 with changes to git-annex.cabal and stack.yaml to force use of concurrent-output-1.7.7 since 1.7.6 had a bug that kept it from building on Windows (I guess?).

Oh, this is on Windows, in case that wasn't clear...

I think the bug is in ${git-annex-root}/Assistant/Ssh.hs or ${git-annex-root}/Assistant/Pairing/MakeRemote.hs. The .2D and .2E bits in the mangled string make me think that the - and . characters in my hostname are being replaced by some Haskell representation of those values (2D in hexadecimal in ASCII is -, 2E is .).

But I've never even written hello world in Haskell so my path ends there.

I'm happy to pull some tag or branch from github and run stack install over again and try adding the rsync.net remote again.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

--Dave