bzr-svn not caching credentials

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 20:24 -0500, John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Caching credentials would require some more work in Bazaar core, as
> > bzr-gtk doesn't have enough information to do caching. It just gets
> > called when *something* needs a password and then returns the password
> > that the user or gnome keyring returned. It doesn't get feedback about
> > whether the password was actually valid.
> I didn't know if it had some other way of getting the passwords into
> the keyring in the first place (via a menu or something).  I've never
> really understood how one was expected to get the password into the
> keyring.  I wrote a script to do this, but it's a bit unfriendly.
There isn't really another way at the moment as far as I know (for http
URLs you might be able to access them with e.g. epiphany first?).

It'd be great if we can add something like this, though I'm not sure how
high on the todo list this is.

> BTW, congrats on joining the Bazaar team!
Thanks, it's great to be here!

Cheers,

Jelmer