Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> I have been playing with the auth stuff while preparing r7082 and
> there are a few oddities.
>
> 1. If I set "store-password = no" in ~/.subversion.config and then
> attempt to checkout I get prompted to enter my password three
> times (or only twice if I checkout revision 0). I expected the
> credentials to get cached in memory even when I ask for them not
> to be cached on disk.
>
> 2. If I allow credentials to be stored on disk then I only get
> prompted once, but that's because the client reads the credentials
> from the disk instead. Subsequent checkouts don't prompt, but they
> do read from the disk multiple times. Again I expected the
> credentials to get cached in memory.
>
> 3. If I use "--username name", to handle a server name that is
> different from the local username, not only is the auth file read
> repeatedly, but it is written repeatedly as well. This happens
> even when the cached username matches the one supplied on the
> command line.
>
> The auth stuff has so many layers it's a bit tricky to determine where
> the fault lies. Are these known problems?
I don't recall that these are known problems, and I don't see any
issues filed for them. It smells like one fix could resolve all three
problems, though. Maybe filing just one issue would be appropriate?
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Received on Fri Sep 19 15:48:27 2003