Re: [PATCH] optionally use $SVN_USERNAME as login

At 02:03 PM 17/08/2005 -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
>Branko ÄŒibej <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...

I believe I recall someone mentioning the odd case of more than one person
using the same system user account with different repository accounts. I
wouldn't set up a development environment this way, but it takes all kinds,
I guess :-)

Jonathan Gilbert

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Received on Thu Aug 18 00:26:26 2005