Branko Čibej wrote: > On 07.07.2014 10:27, Julian Foad wrote: >> Aha! But Subversion already has a way to read authn creds from a file: >> >> --config-dir=x >> >> All we're lacking is a convenient way to put the required creds into >> the file. A user interface could be: >> >> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL >> >> or, if you insist on being able to cache a user name and password when you >> don't currently have access to the server: >> >> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL --force --username=y --password=z >> >> Thoughts? > > Won't work given how we currently store credentials. The credentials key > is not the URL, it's the realmstring, which you (in general) will not > know without actually contacting the server.
OK, right. To be clear, you mean the *second* thing I wrote (the --force variant) won't work. The first will. - Julian
