svn checkout with svn:external properties

Hi

I'm having a problem checking out a project with a svn:external
property. We're using the svn+ssh protocol which we find convienient
as an existing user group can be used to control access to the repo.

I am hitting a problem when trying to checkout from account that
doesn't exist on the server. i.e.

foo_at_other-server-1 > svn co svn+ssh://a.johnson@svn-server-1/myproj/
A afile.cpp
A bfile.cpp
 U utilities

Fetching external item into 'utilities/src'
foo_at_svn-server-1 password:

a.johnson has an account on svn-server-1. foo however does not. It
appears that for each external project a new connection is made to the
server. Unfortunately only the first connection uses the username
passed in the URL, subsequent ones default to current session (i.e.
foo in the above case).

I have managed to override this behaviour using the SVN_SSH
environment variable (e.g. SVN_SSH="ssh -l a.johnson") but this is not
a practical solution as it involves wrapping the client and
preprocessing the URL in order to set the environment variable
(yuck!). Is there a workaround which allows the username supplied in
the URL to be passed to the checkout for each external project?

Thanks

Andy

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Received on 2008-06-30 20:23:56 CEST