Re: svn update failures

[Forrest Aldrich <forrie () gmail com>]

On 4/9/12 5:54 PM, Fyodor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:15:13PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this is the issue.   For one, when I check out a
> > new, fresh copy of the repository the SVN update will work through a
> > couple of trees, then fail, asking for a login.
> What happens if you just accept the default username (or type guest)
> and then just hit return at the password prompt (to mean blank
> password)?  Now you shouldn't HAVE to do this, but I'm just wondering
> if it will work.  Also, do you only have to do it (the blank password
> auth) once, or does it ask you multiple times during the checkout?  Do
> you get it again when you svn up?
>
> For what it is worth, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem when I
> just tried:
>
> svn co --username foobar https://svn.nmap.org/nmap
>
> It just checked out the files without an authentication prompt.  svn
> up didn't trigger one either.
>
> Cheers,
> -F

It first reverts to asking for the password for "root", then asks for a 
username thereafter.

This happens every time, except for a couple of the SVN directories 
under.  (I haven't bothered to check which ones).




Forrest

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