From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laszlo Papp Subject: Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:16:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <001636ed7681994278047e4e4a6f@google.com> <1976ea661001290704h3ed4761dscf95ba848b373555@mail.gmail.com> <1976ea661002012030h23aa415ek30aa6db23cb88d0e@mail.gmail.com> <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Frank Li , Tay Ray Chuan , git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Wong X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 02 14:16:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcIc3-0000l0-DO for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:16:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755843Ab0BBNQL (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:16:11 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.210.189]:44569 "EHLO mail-yx0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754403Ab0BBNQJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:16:09 -0500 Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so25766yxe.4 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:16:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.233.35 with SMTP id f35mr7432564anh.233.1265116566610; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:16:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk > (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache > SVN uses? @Frank Li @Eric Wong Maybe you can check whether how TortoiseSVN or SVN client code handle this situation, because it's the same server, but 'just' the client side is different a little bit, but the same situation happen there in case TortoiseSVN a popup menu appears when you try to authenticate yourself. Second way is to ask on the SVN mailing list, how they use it, or maybe I'm totally wrong with it :P Best Regards, Laszlo Papp