# Bug? git svn tag Authentication failed

2 messages from 2017-05-04 to 2017-05-04. Participants: Ethan Clevenger, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45866

## Ethan Clevenger, 2017-05-04 16:21

Subject: Bug? git svn tag Authentication failed
Message-ID: <CAOY55trVg7CYqzp7vTxaeVnqvM7YKnys-+88DnDRc4nbmBEBAg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAOY55trVg7CYqzp7vTxaeVnqvM7YKnys-%2B88DnDRc4nbmBEBAg%40mail.gmail.com

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Git version: 2.12.2.windows.2

`git svn tag 1.0` results in:

> Copying https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gf-payment-continue/trunk at r1651123 to https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gf-payment-continue/tags/1.0...
> Authentication failed: No more credentials or we tried too many times.
> Authentication failed at C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-svn line 1200.


In my .subversion directory I do have cached credentials under
auth/svn.simple. A vanilla svn CLI commit also works:

>  svn ci -m 'do creds work?'
> Adding         trunk\.bar
> Transmitting file data .done
> Committing transaction...
> Committed revision 1651133.


Unsure if this is actually a bug or my oversight.

Cheers,
Ethan
Sterner Stuff Design
https://sternerstuffdesign.com

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## Eric Wong, 2017-05-04 16:37

Subject: Re: Bug? git svn tag Authentication failed
Message-ID: <20170504163716.GA20370@starla>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170504163716.GA20370%40starla
In-Reply-To: <CAOY55trVg7CYqzp7vTxaeVnqvM7YKnys-+88DnDRc4nbmBEBAg@mail.gmail.com>

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Ethan Clevenger <ethan@sternerstuffdesign.com> wrote:
> Git version: 2.12.2.windows.2
> 
> `git svn tag 1.0` results in:

<snip>

Note, "git svn tag" uses the same backend code as "git svn branch",
and there was a recent fix for that in
commit e0688e9b28f2c5ff711460ee8b62077be5df2360
("git svn: fix authentication with 'branch'")

Looks like that change will be in 2.13 (it's in all the
release-canditates), but it should backported to 2.12.x

Junio: I think that commit should go into 'maint', too.  Thanks.

> In my .subversion directory I do have cached credentials under
> auth/svn.simple. A vanilla svn CLI commit also works:
> 
> >  svn ci -m 'do creds work?'
> > Adding         trunk\.bar
> > Transmitting file data .done
> > Committing transaction...
> > Committed revision 1651133.
> 
> 
> Unsure if this is actually a bug or my oversight.

Seems like a bug to me.  Can you try one of the 2.13 release
candidates to confirm?  Thanks.

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