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Re: git-svn questions

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 1, 2011, 18:12 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:01:17AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
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> I want to introduce git to a project that's currently using svn.
> I used svn git with no problems.  But someone else trying the same
> steps runs into authentication issues.
> How did mine "just know" what my username for SVN is?  I'm using
> Tortoise-svn and it remembers (I only ever signed in once, when I set
> it up), but so is he.
> 
> We are on windows, using msysgit.

I believe SVN will cache your username (and optionally password, in cleartext!) forever in ~/.subversion/auth. I have no idea if Tortoise writes to the same area or not. Are you sure you never ran "svn" from the command-line, in addition to running Tortoise?

Just a guess. I know very little about how svn works in this respect. :)
-Peff
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