Re: git-svn won't remember pem password

From: Nikolaus Demmel <nikolaus@nikolaus-demmel.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2012, 04:03 UTC
Message-ID: <1329624193999-7298035.post@n2.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3zkcgqt0g.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote

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> Igor &lt;mrigor83@&gt; writes:
> 
>> I'm running into an issue where I have to enter my pem certificate
>> password every time I git-svn fetch or git-svn dcommit. Vanilla svn
>> uses OS X KeyChain and remembers my password just fine. Is there a
>> known solution for this?
> 
> I don't know if it is svn that has to remember password, or git that
> has to remember password.  Git 1.7.9 learned "credentials API" that
> allows integration with platform native keychain mechanisms, and I
> think OS X Keychain is one of examples / supported platforms (but it
> might not made it into core git)... though I am not sure if it affects
> git-svn, or only HTTP(S) transport.
>

Wow, I just signed up to the mainling list to post about this, but it turns out the latest message is exactly what I wanted to ask.

Like Eric wrote, I'm pretty sure it is svn that is meant to store the password here and the perl bindings or the git-svn part fails to deal with the os x keychain right. With pure svn the keychain authentication works just fine. If I set up plaintext password storage in the svn configs, then git svn is also able to store passwords.

There is also this macports ticket [1] that has been around for a while. But that can only be fixed by an upstream fix here.

I would love to help to get this working, but I'm not sure how I can.

Cheers, Nikolaus

[1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28329

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