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Re: git svn init --username ignored

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Mar 29, 2009, 22:41 UTC
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<20090329224137.GA20675@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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Lachlan Deck <lachlan.deck@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> Is it a bug that the when specifying --username=foo for either git-svn  
> init or git-svn clone  that this isn't stored in .git/config?
>
> It means that for http[s] urls you need to specify it each time for  
> git-svn fetch, for example.
>
> Is there any way to specify it manually in the config file - or would  
> that have some bad consequences?
Hi,

Subversion already stores credential information in ~/.subversion/ which git svn should respect and use if available and allowed to. Did you disable set "store-auth-creds = no" in your ~/.subversion/config ?

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Eric Wong
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