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Subversion has long supported the use of SSL client certificates
+for authentication against a server which accepts such. Users
+typically employ the ssl-client-cert-file
option in their
+'servers' runtime configuration file to inform the client regarding
+the location of the relevant certificate file. In interactive
+scenarios, Subversion can also prompt the user for the location of the
+certificate file when that runtime-configured value isn't set or
+otherwise suitable.
Prior to 1.8.0, this prompting was enabled by default.
+Unfortunately, not every server which accepts client certificates
+also requires them. Some users were being prompted for
+client certificate file locations in scenarios where no certificate
+was required (or perhaps even available). So in Subversion 1.8.0, the
+Subversion client defaults to not prompting for the location
+of an SSL client certificate file unless the user has set the new
+ssl-client-cert-file-prompt
runtime configuration
+option (found in the [auth]
section of the 'config' file)
+to "yes".
See issue +#2410 for discussion and details.
+ +