Re: svn commit: r23433 - trunk/subversion/svnsync

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, --username and --password represent a design
> oversight (for svnsync only, of course), and should be deprecated in favor
> of the new, explicit options (and the usage message now indicates that they
> are, in fact, deprecated).

This is probably an immensely stupid question, for which I apologise in
advance, but...

... why not use the built in support for usernames and passwords in the URL
specifications? Since a URL is supposed to look like

     <proto>://<username>:<password>@<host>/<path>

(where the '<username>:<password>@' bit is optional) svnsync shouldn't need
any explicit username/password operations.

If one or both of the DEST_URL and SOURCE_URL for svnsync require
usernames/passwords they can be specified at init time:

   svnsync init svn://u1:p1_at_host1/path/to/repo/path svn://u2:p2_at_host2/path/

Right? And if DEST_URL needs a username/password pair that can be
re-specified at sync time:

   svnsync sync svn://u2:p2_at_host2/path/

Or am I missing something fundamental?

N

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Received on Wed Feb 21 17:03:02 2007