svn: Can't get password

[joe hobson]

I love using BBEdit with my svn repositories. Lately though, i get
errors from BBEdit when i try to do some things that interact with the
svn server. Just tried to "Compare Arbitrary Revisions" on a file and
got Subversion.log with the following error:

Retrieving Revision History
svn: Can't get password

I've only found one post about it out there on the internet:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2008/Mar/msg00843.html

I just tried upgrading my svn client to 1.4.6 but got the same error.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get around this one? thanks in
advance. ... .joe

[Jim Correia]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:06 PM, joe hobson wrote:

> I love using BBEdit with my svn repositories. Lately though, i get
> errors from BBEdit when i try to do some things that interact with the
> svn server. Just tried to "Compare Arbitrary Revisions" on a file and
> got Subversion.log with the following error:
>
> Retrieving Revision History
> svn: Can't get password

It sounds like you are running into an issue due to changes in the
Keychain on Leopard. (Subversion 1.4 uses the keychain, and BBEdit
uses subversion in --non-interactive mode.) The subversion folks have
a bug logged about this, and we've reported it to Apple.

The simplest way to work around the problem make sure you have a
BBEdit source control configuration for each subversion working copy,
and that you've provided your username & password in the configuration
data.

Jim

[G. T. Stresen-Reuter]

On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Jim Correia wrote:

> The simplest way to work around the problem make sure you have a
> BBEdit source control configuration for each subversion working copy,
> and that you've provided your username & password in the configuration
> data.

Yes, that's the simplest way around it, but what fun is that? ;-)

You can also build recent versions of subversion from source and pass
a flag to tell subversion to not use the keychain (I forget exactly
which flag, but ./configure --help in the root of the source will
reveal all!)

Ted Stresen-Reuter

PS: this is kind of a joke, please do not take this too seriously...

[joe hobson]

thanks Jim. I wondered if that might be part of it. I never had to
bother with setting up the source control configurations before so i
didn't expect that to be the solution. Looks like that does the trick
for me though, thanks. ... .joe

[arie van boxel]

I also got a 'svn: Can't get password' error in BBEdit 10 and OS X Lion.

The solution for me is simple:

Open a terminal window and cd to the directory where your BBEdit project lives.

Then type something like svn status -u.

Subversion will now ask for your password. Enter it and you're done!

Hope this helps other BBEdit/Lion users.

[Watts Martin]

arie van boxel wrote:

> Open a terminal window and cd to the directory where your BBEdit project
> lives.

> Then type something like*svn status -u*.

> Subversion will now ask for your password. Enter it and you're done!
> Hope this helps other BBEdit/Lion users.

This did it for me, thanks! I'm not on Lion, so it's a quirk in whatever
new way BBEdit is using Subversion, I guess. (I found the old way where
you had to set the root in Preferences a lot quirkier, I have to say!)

--
Watts Martin <lay...@gmail.com>