Ivan Zhakov wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 17:48:42 +0400:
> On 27 February 2014 17:37, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:06:38PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> >> Also note that the help text mentions 'credentials' for this reason:
> >> auth: Manage cached authentication credentials.
> >
> > Another thing makes me wary about renaming the command right now
> > is that we might still extend the command's functionality, for 1.9
> > or even later.
> >
> > For instance, we could add an 'authentication' mode to this command,
> > which simply completes the authentication process for a given URL and
> > caches the credentials. Then the current name would be very suitable.
> That's exactly what I would like to avoid: pre-authentication will be very
> confusing for users IMHO. Some of them may decide that this is
> required/recommended workflow for Subversion.
It would be a very useful feature. Have you ever configured a cron job
that runs 'svn update' on a password-protected working copy? And then
needed to change the cron job's password? 'svn credentials add' is
exactly what I needed when I did that.
That said, though, you don't have to agree. We aren't discussing
whether to create an 'add' subcommand --- we are discussing whether 'svn
auth' should be renamed. I am leaning towards a "Yes" on that question.
Received on 2014-02-27 14:55:42 CET