git svn: password for svn is not stored

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I'm using git against a central remote svn repository using 'git-svn'. The SVN repository uses https with a self-signed certificate. Everything works fine, with one nasty exception. As long as I use directly with svn, the password is remembered, so it has to by typed only on the first command.

When using git-svn operations (e.g. dcommit, rebase), the password is no longer remembered and manual input is required. After a git-svn oparation, direct svn commands do no longer remember the password too, also prompting each time.

What's going on here? Any hints?

My environment: Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit, git-core and git-svn 1.7.0.4-1

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:14:47Z

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I have a similar usage scenario (svn over https, password, using git for a local repository and push/pull to the svn server), however I haven't encountered this issue you are mentioning.

One difference I see is that I set subversion to save my password and not to ask it every time. You could try that to see if it works.

And I see a similar question here, it seems that wiping the whole ~/.subversion directory helped (make sure you have a backup of the directory if you try that)

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Stefan Armbruster Over a year ago

Thanks for link to the other question. After deleting .subversion and reentering the password once it is remembered now. Thanks.

Dežo · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-21 08:42:57Z

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In my case git-svn asked for password every time since our infra dept set windows HOME environment variable to network disk recently.

My recommendation for diagnosing of this is to download sysinternals procmon and filter out everything but perl process and path containing "subversion" string. After that you can see what is happening

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