Mark Hammond wrote:
Chris quoting Jim:
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whether SVN or not, I'm guessing any use of HTTP basic authentication mechanism qualifies as "extremely lame"! I've no idea if this is what Jim meant though :)
OK, for those not familiar with svn/HTTP authentication, as I understand it you have to authenticate for each session and your credentials are cached in clear text in your home directory. The storage of clear-text credentials is obviously lame, as is the necessity to provide then for each svn session. With the current ssh-based mechanism, I authenicate once when I log into my machine and don't have to authenticate again for the remainder of that OS session, during which I can log into many remote machines and access many different Subversion and CVS repositories without having to reenter credentials. I find this to be a major convenience. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org