Re: git-svn won't remember pem password

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Am 20.02.2012 um 01:57 schrieb Jeff King:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:30:00AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Igor <mrigor83@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> I'm running into an issue where I have to enter my pem certificate
>>> password every time I git-svn fetch or git-svn dcommit. Vanilla svn
>>> uses OS X KeyChain and remembers my password just fine. Is there a
>>> known solution for this? Other users have ran into same issue as
>>> described here:
>>> 
>>>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605519/does-git-svn-store-svn-passwords
>> 
>>> However, that solution of removing .subversion folder did not work
>>> for me.
>> 
>> I don't know if it is svn that has to remember password, or git that
>> has to remember password.  Git 1.7.9 learned "credentials API" that
>> allows integration with platform native keychain mechanisms, and I
>> think OS X Keychain is one of examples / supported platforms (but it
>> might not made it into core git)... though I am not sure if it affects
>> git-svn, or only HTTP(S) transport.
> 
> It does not affect git-svn currently.
> 
> I have some thoughts on providing access to the credentials API for
> scripts like git-svn (right now, it is accessible only by C git
> programs). However, there is an important question: should password
> prompting in git-svn behave like git, or behave like svn?
> 
> So far, it has been the latter, and I think that is reasonable. The
> resource that requires the credentials is an svn repo, not a git repo,
> so you are more likely to want to share credentials for it with real
> svn, and not other git commands.
> 

IMHO a normal user would expect git-svn to store credentials in the same way as normal svn. I think this is the way it should be.

Best regards,
Nikolaus--
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