On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, frame wrote: > In our office, each of us has his own PC. Cygwin is installed on each PC. > Every PC can access the shared S drive. > > I have installed TortoiseSVN on my own PC. I am thinking doing a short-cut: > no need to install TortoiseSVN on everybody's PC. I just copied my C:/Program > Files/TortoiseSVN to the S drive. Now everybody in Cygwin on his PC can have > 'svn' command(svn is an alias now to avoid typing the long path). For > example, "svn --version" works on everybody's Cygwin. > > The problem is authentication. On their PC Window Explorer, mouse right click > won't show those SVN options in the menu. On their Cygwin, I typed this > command: > > svn ls username my_username --password my_secret_pswd URL > > prompting me to enter password for the user 'my_username', I did and it hangs > there forever. > > I checked his PC %AppData%/Roaming/Subversion/auth/svn.simple. The directory > has been created on his own drive. But it is always empty. > > I even cleaned my own svn.simple directory, re-run TortoiseSVN gui again, > this time I entered his username and password so that a credential file was > created in my svn.simple/. Then I moved this file(containing his credentials) > to his own empty svn.simple/, then on his Cygwin I tried "svn ls URL". It > still didn't work. > > Is that possible for me to set up such a thing so that everybody can use the > shared svn on the S drive, no need to install his own?
I don't know if TortoiseSVN can be used that way. You could ask on the TortoiseSVN mailing list.
