From: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:18:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
Message-ID: <1976ea661002020118n2b86844k47a1064c028f439f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net>

> Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's
> painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to view
> the process table.  Not something I'd like to encourage...
>

Yes, it is insecure. "--password" seam undocumented.

> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>
> --
> Eric Wong
>