Vincent Lefevre <vincent-...@vinc17.net> writes: > When the .config/auth directory has been removed (or has never > existed, e.g. when the mirror repository is accessed from a > different machine), I get an error: > > $ svnsync sync file://$PWD/svn-mpfr > svnsync: E165001: Revprop change blocked by pre-revprop-change hook > (exit code 1) with output: > Only the svnsync user can change revprops > > with the pre-revprop-change hook mentioned on: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt > > I would have expected the username "svnsync" to be remembered.
.subversion/auth is where it is recorded. If you don't have that it is not remembered. > There's no documentation at all about the way it is remembered, It is recorded the same way all other auth credentials are recorded. > and > the relation to the .config/auth directory was not obvious: there's > nothing related to authentication here. The only slightly tricky thing is that ra_local has some slightly odd rules about when it gets authentication credentials. > It seems that the fix is to provide the "--sync-username svnsync" > option to svnsync, and then this option is no longer needed. Again, > this is not documented. It is documented in "svnsync init --help". I've updated the file in notes to refer to --source-username and --sync-username. -- Philip Martin WANdisco
