From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn questions
Message-ID: <20110801181242.GC10636@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <29920-1312210883-194720@sneakemail.com>

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:01:17AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:

> 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