Re: SVN remote server tips
Re: SVN remote server tips
- Subject: Re: SVN remote server tips
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:28:31 -0700
On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Blair M. Burtan wrote:
So, what you need to do to get things to work is
1) install Subversion,
2) do the initial checkout. SmartSVN is fine for this.
3) Launch Terminal, cd to the working copy's directory.
4) Then execute any command to the remote server via Terminal that
requires
authentication e.g. svn list
Subversion defaults to your login name but if you hit enter it'll
ask you
for a username. You can then put in the correct username and
password.
This authentication information is stored in your Keychain.
A couple minor comments:
At your step 4, you can also use
svn --username NAME list
or even
svn --username NAME --password PASS list
Second, it sounds as if you're saying that SmartSVN is not using the
Keychain facilities of SVN. I'm not familiar with that client, so I
don't know one way or the other, but that seems to be the most direct
explanation of your need for step 4. If so, then some other comments
follow:
At the point of step 4, you probably have a file in ~/.subversion/
auth/svn.simple that still contains the password for this account.
(This would have been left behind by your step 2.) You probably
don't want that. From the terminal, do
grep PASS ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/*
to check. If you do find any files in svn.simple/ that contain
passwords, the easiest thing is just to remove those files and do
step 4 again. Or, if you like, remember to do this before step 4.
Additionally, it appears you are strongly in favor of the keychain
feature (me, too!). So you might want to join in the SmartSVN
community and request they add this feature. (I did a quick check of
their mail list, and didn't spot any discussion of this matter there,
which seems rather odd to me, so perhaps I'm missing something
somewhere.)
And, at the risk of "shameless plug-ism," the SCPlugin project at
tigris.org (a project to which I contribute) *does* use the Keyring,
and we're right now adding the dialogs to handle the initial
connection. You might want to subscribe to our "announce@" list; our
next minor release should be sufficient to handle this scenario and
most other main-line work, without any command-line tool
installation. SCPlugin is a Finder contextual-menu extension, so you
don't even need a Terminal window, just a mouse.
-==-
Jack Repenning
email@hidden
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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