From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:41:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn - username/password
Message-ID: <20070116004137.GA10706@localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <8664b73maf.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

"Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> 
> It's not clear from the docs where I'm supposed to put a subversion
> username/password in git-svn.  In fact, git-svn makes absolutely no mention of
> password.  And I see there's some --username=%s kind of stuff in the arg
> parsing, but I'm not able to seem to make it work.  (At one point, git-svn
> init actually created a subdir named "http:"... oops!)
> 
> Eric?  Or anyone?

git-svn fetch --username <username> should work with recent-ish git-svn
(since around Thanksgiving); and eventually prompt you for the password
(just like svn does).

If you're using older versions, just run
   `svn log -rHEAD --username <username> <repository>'
and have it cache your password.

-- 
Eric Wong