SVN and traffic encryption?

Question

SSH

I understand correctly that when using a simple svnserve, the traffic is not encrypted in any way (only compressed)? Are logins-passwords also transmitted in plain text?
If so, which scheme - SVN+SSH or SVN+SSL would you recommend? It is desirable that there is a portable client that supports this scheme.

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, most projects use svn+ssh. SSH is generally a very handy thing for encrypted tunneling of anything.

Answer 2

I understand correctly that when using a simple svnserve, the traffic is not encrypted in any way (only compressed)? Are logins-passwords also transmitted in plain text?

Yes. For encryption, you can use ssh or https (when using mod_dav_svn)