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Re: Only one userid per realm cached in .subversion directory

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:11:04 -0500

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 19:14, <Wardman_Michael_at_emc.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm using subversion version 1.6.9 under Cygwin and storing my project
> on projectlocker

Why Cygwin? Unless you have an absolute requirement to use the Cygwin
client, use the native Win32 client. Cygwin introduces oddities in how
Subversion handles some things.

> The problem I'm having is that a colleague is also using ProjectLocker
> and the svn CLI is caching just one username/password per realm, and the
> realm is just "<https://free1.projectlocker.com:443> Subversion
> Repository"
>
> That is, it doesn't include the repository path.
>
> The effect of this is that every time I do repository updates for my
> project, it asks for my username/password and caches that.
> But as soon as I do some updates for his repository, I need to re-enter
> my credentials.
> This flip flops back and forwards between the two user names I have to
> use on projectlocker.
>
> Do you think it's desirable / possible to cache the credentials on a
> lower, more specific level than the site name?

I think this sounds like a very limited use case; I don't recall
anyone asking for something like this previously. Most people have
only a single set of credentials for a given server and use them
across all repositories.

This can also be worked around by setting up a different realm for
each repository, but that would require additional Apache
configuration.
Received on 2010-02-24 02:12:01 CET

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