Re: git svn init --username ignored

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Lachlan Deck <lachlan.deck@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/03/2009, at 9:41 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
>
>> Lachlan Deck <lachlan.deck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Is it a bug that the when specifying --username=foo for either git- 
>>> svn
>>> init or git-svn clone  that this isn't stored in .git/config?
>>>
>>> It means that for http[s] urls you need to specify it each time for
>>> git-svn fetch, for example.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to specify it manually in the config file - or would
>>> that have some bad consequences?
>>
>> Subversion already stores credential information in ~/.subversion/  
>> which
>> git svn should respect and use if available and allowed to.  Did you
>> disable set "store-auth-creds = no" in your ~/.subversion/config ?
>
> No, it's still commented out.
>
> I simply started by doing:
> git svn clone https://somedomain/repo repo --username=lachlan -s
> cd repo
> git svn fetch // failed without --username
>
> In case the initial passing of --username is tripping it up, I'm trying 
> again without specifying it.

Does "svn ls https://somedomain/repo" prompt you for a username?  Does
repeating that command (after successfully running it once) still prompt
you? (it shouldn't prompt you again if you have auth caching on).

If "svn ls" is prompting you every time, then SVN auth caching is
somehow disabled/broken on you system.  You can try poking around inside
your ~/.subversion/ directory and see if there's permissions problems
or such...

-- 
Eric Wong