[tex-live] SVN problems ... help!

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Jul 2007, at 7:54 pm, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> Norbert Preining writes:
>> Hi all!
>>
>>> From my new computer I cannot commit stuff to the svn repository.
>> Strange.
>
>
>> - why does it not accept my password
>
> Probably your password for svn is different from the password for ssh.

Yes, likely (and wise).

> This is very likely because the web interface warned you that the svn
> password is not really secret.
>
> When I got my svn account I had to type my (svn) password but I had
> not been asked for a password later.  I suppose that authentication is
> then done by using the uuid key in .svn/entries in the root of your
> working copy.

No, I believe the credentials are normally cached in ~/.subversion/ 
auth/* on your machine. You should be able to look there on your old  
computer (if available) and copy the relevant details.

JK