On 02/07/2008, Chris Leon <chris.leon_at_realtimerisksystems.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our developers work in pairs, and switch machines often. Because of the
> way SVN credentials are managed, this has the unfortunate side effect of
> there being no great way (as far as I've found) of having changesets marked
> as being checked in by one member of the pair. Instead, all changesets from
> a particular machine are checked under whatever username happened to set up
> the SVN connection in subclipse.
>
> I've only found out a few ways of switching the credentials after the
> repository connection has been setup:
>
> Don't check the remember credentials button when first prompted for SVN
> authentication information. This has the effect of being asked every time
> you do anything with SVN: browsing the repository, checking in, checking
> out, etc. Not great, because this ends up really asking too often.
If you use SVNkit, you only get prompted once per Eclipse session.
However, there may be reasons why you need JavaHL.
> Delete the SVN credentials from the keyring where they're stored. Not
> really user friendly.
>
> Set up a slightly different SVN repository for each user so that we fool
> Subclipse into different credentials for the same repository. I think the
> only way to do this is setup many different server names for the same
> server, which is a bit of a pain.
>
> I'm wondering if someone has come up with a nicer way of handling this sort
> of work environment with Subclipse? What I'd really like is to have the
> user login when they open eclipse or at least on first interaction with SVN,
> basically eclipse-lifetime scoped credentials. But I'd be happy if, for
> example, there was a way to do this with separate eclipse workspaces for
> each set of credentials.
>
> Any advice is welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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Received on 2008-07-02 18:45:58 CEST