Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

From: Edward Rudd <urkle@outoforder.cc>
Date: Dec 14, 2010, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <4D078048.3040602@outoforder.cc>
In-Reply-To: <4AA84F46.6010706@hp.com>

On 09/09/2009 08:58 PM, Tim Potter wrote:

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> 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.

I've been tracking subversion bug # 3612 (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cfg?id=3612 ) which is on this issue of perl binding not supporting platform specific providers.

A patch was added into subversion 1.6.15 that finally adds bindings for perl to access this functionality via a call to SVN::Core::auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers and adding it's contents to the array returned by _auth_providers..

The "test" modification I did to git-svn is as follows.

sub _auth_providers () {
  (
    SVN::Core::auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers(undef,undef),
    [
      SVN::Client::get_simple_provider(),
      .... the rest of the static provider ...
    ]
  )
}

I'm honestly not sure if it should be at the beginning or end, and this also needs some run-time checking to determine if the user has at least SVN 1.6.15 installed