On 19.04.2014, at 13:44, Zé wrote: > On 04/18/2014 04:41 PM, Bob Archer wrote: >>> Does subversion provide a way for the user to configure his username, thus >>> avoiding having to pass the --username flag everytime he has to commit >>> something? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Zé >> >> The credentials should be cached. If they are not being cached check in >> ~/.subversion/config, you probably have store-passwords = no. Change it to >> yes (or just comment it out because it defaults to yes), and the next time >> you give subversion your password it should save it. > > My question was if Subversion provided a way to configure the username. It > appears that by default subversion forces the user to use his system > username, and it also provides a way to specify a custom username through the > --username option, but it appears there is no way to let a user configure a > custom username. > > -- > Zé
Well, it depends on what you mean by "let a user configure a custom username". Would you like to configure a username per working copy or a username per repository? Subversion allows you to do the latter. So, if you would like Subversion to use a certain username for a certain repository (but not remember the password), the following settings in ~/.subversion/servers should do the trick: [groups] repo1 = domain-name-of-server [repo1] username = your-username store-passwords = no I've never tried the username setting myself, actually it's a bit strange that this option is not mentioned in the Subversion book. It is mentioned in the comments of ~/.subversion/servers (generated by a Subversion 1.8 client) though. Anyway, in case the "username = your-username" part doesn't work, you can use [repo1] store-auth-creds = yes store-passwords = no instead. You'd have to use command line option --username once afterwards to make Subversion remember the username in its cache. You shouldn't have to mention the username again after that. Happy Easter, Tobias PS: more details in - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.servers - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.netmodel.html#svn.serverconfig.netmodel.creds - the comments in ~/.subversion/servers
