svn access to a https repository: username / password always being prompted for

Question

I just moved my svn repository to a new server. Previously I was accessing my repository via svn://oldserver/yyy/zzz Now I want to access it via https://newserver:8443/svn/yyy/zzz

I used switch --relocate to repoint my source tree and this seemed to work well.

When I try to update the source I use:

svn.exe update zzz --username myusername --password mypassword --non-interactive

When I do it still asks me for the username and password (which if I re-enter works OK).

No matter what I do I can't get it to accept the username and password parameters.

Can anyone please help me out here?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark

Answer 1

I'm not really a SVN god, but I assume you got the checkout working? What happens if you just type

svn.exe update zzz

in the root directory of your project?

Answer 2

When you pass --username and --password, you're telling Subversion to ignore the cached username/passwords, and use those instead. There's probably an error in the username and/or password (maybe caused by your shell?)

Answer 3

You may want to check the files under the %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth\ ($HOME/.subversion/auth in linux) folder and if there is an auth entry for this project, and edit or delete it as appropriate.