Re: git-svn dcommit ignores --username if there are cached credentials

Michel Jouvin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

I am new to Git and using 1.6.6. I'm very interested by using it to mirror SVN 
repositories. But I am running into troubles with the way git-svn handles SVN 
credentials. 

For one SVN I use I have some cached credentials that have only very restricted 
write access. With svn command, I am using --username for every commit and this 
cached credential is just ignored: I'm asked for a password.

With git-svn, I use --username at init/fetch but during dcommit --username is 
ignored becaused of the cached credential. I can see in SVN logs that the 
cached credential (which doesn't have the right to commit the mods I made) has 
been used instead of the one specified during fetch. If I removed the cached 
credential, the username specified with --username is taken into account (I'm 
asked a password for it and it works) and if I ommit the --username, the one 
specified at fetch time is used.

IMO, looks like a bug... Thanks in advance for any comment.

 
Hi Michel,

I wonder if this is because we explicitly reread the config directory
when creating Git::SVN::Editor.

Does using --no-auth-cache work for you?

Otherwise, try pointing --config-dir= to an empty directory.

Or you can try this patch to force us to not reread the config_dir:

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 650c9e5..280fd15 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl

@@ -550,9 +550,6 @@ sub cmd_dcommit {
 			my %ed_opts = ( r => $last_rev,
 			                log => get_commit_entry($d)->{log},
 			                ra => Git::SVN::Ra->new($url),
-			                config => SVN::Core::config_get_config(
-			                        $Git::SVN::Ra::config_dir
-			                ),
 			                tree_a => "$d~1",
 			                tree_b => $d,
 			                editor_cb => sub {

We have a good reason to read config dirs there for getting auto-props,
though, so the above patch isn't going into git.git

-- 
Eric Wong