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Re: [PATCH] optionally use $SVN_USERNAME as login

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2005-08-17 22:40:51 CEST

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>
>
>>I still don't understand what's wrong with our current credentials
>>caching? It does exactly what you want, on a per-repository basis
>>rather than globally.
>>
>>
>
>Hmm, you know, you're right, I didn't really think this through.
>
>If two people are sharing a working copy, each of them should have to
>pass --username exactly once. After that, no more problems.
>
>That makes me wonder what problem this patch was solving...
>
>
If a username is not cached, SVN will try the login name when the server
asks for authentication, and present only the password prompt.

>>Maybe we should consider changing the auth
>>provider code to always cache the username if it was given on the
>>command line, even if the server doesn't require authentication.
>>
>>
>Nah, because we don't know if it's correct (although at worst I guess
>that could just cause a reprompt later).
>
>

-- Brane

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