From: Tim Potter Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:58:46 GMT Subject: Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 Message-ID: <4AA84F46.6010706@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090905064649.GD22272@dcvr.yhbt.net> Eric Wong wrote: > Tim Potter wrote: >> Hi everyone. I am using git-svn with the Subversion 1.6 client compiled >> with GNOME Keyring support. This neat features allows a SSL client >> certificate password to be cached inside GNOME Keyring instead of being >> prompted to enter it every time. However the git-svn script doesn't >> appear to know about this and always prompts for a password. >> >> Obviously there's some tweak required in the _auth_providers() >> subroutine but I don't know enough about the Subversion Perl client to >> figure out a fix. >> >> Has anyone else run in to this problem? I did a quick search on the >> list but didn't find anything relevant. > > Hi Tim, > > I think one user wanted to get SSL certificate authentication going but > my SSL knowledge was too weak at the time[1] and I think we both forgot > about it or lost interest. Hi Eric. Thanks for the reply. It's probably just a matter of adding another entry to the _auth_providers() function in git-svn. My thought was that there might be a new auth provider in the Subversion 1.6 client library for GNOME Keyring support that could be used for this. I'll have a search through and see what I can find. Regards, Tim.