bzr-svn not caching credentials

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 1/25/2011 3:14 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> bzr-svn deliberately doesn't talk to gnome-keyring or kwallet through
> libsvn. Bazaar already has integration with gnome-keyring and kwallet
> and the concern is that we try the same credentials more than once.

>> Basically, as far as I'm concerned, bzr-svn should be behaving like a
>> normal svn client in this regard.
> I think bzr-svn should be acting as a normal /bzr/ client. It would be
> very confusing if accessing two repositories over http using bzr had
> different behaviour in terms of password caching. 

Fair enough. But I find it somewhat inconsistent then that it *reads*
the libsvn cache. I suppose though that it checks bzr's
authentication.conf first.

>>> Personally, I would prefer for Bazaar to support e.g. gnome-keyring to
>>> handle caching of credentials.
>> I don't think Windows has anything like that, does it?
> Then we should look at alternatives. I think Bazaar should behave
> consistently when caching credentials - independent of what the format
> is of the repository at the other end. Accessing two different
> repositories over http:// should not result in the password being cached
> in ~/.subversion in one case and not being cached in the other.

I just read
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/developers/authentication-ring.html. Is
this just a plan or is it already implemented in bzr.dev?

Ciao,
Gordon
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