From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git-svn questions Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:12:42 -0600 Message-ID: <20110801181242.GC10636@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <29920-1312210883-194720@sneakemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "John M. Dlugosz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 01 20:12:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnwyz-0004U5-Fh for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:12:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752266Ab1HASMq (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:12:46 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:35055 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249Ab1HASMp (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:12:45 -0400 Received: (qmail 21810 invoked by uid 107); 1 Aug 2011 18:13:18 -0000 Received: from S010690840de80b38.ss.shawcable.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (70.64.172.81) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:13:18 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:12:42 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29920-1312210883-194720@sneakemail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:01:17AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > I want to introduce git to a project that's currently using svn. > I used svn git with no problems. But someone else trying the same > steps runs into authentication issues. > How did mine "just know" what my username for SVN is? I'm using > Tortoise-svn and it remembers (I only ever signed in once, when I set > it up), but so is he. > > We are on windows, using msysgit. I believe SVN will cache your username (and optionally password, in cleartext!) forever in ~/.subversion/auth. I have no idea if Tortoise writes to the same area or not. Are you sure you never ran "svn" from the command-line, in addition to running Tortoise? Just a guess. I know very little about how svn works in this respect. :) -Peff