On 27 February 2014 17:37, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:06:38PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> Also note that the help text mentions 'credentials' for this reason: >> auth: Manage cached authentication credentials. > > Another thing makes me wary about renaming the command right now > is that we might still extend the command's functionality, for 1.9 > or even later. > > For instance, we could add an 'authentication' mode to this command, > which simply completes the authentication process for a given URL and > caches the credentials. Then the current name would be very suitable. That's exactly what I would like to avoid: pre-authentication will be very confusing for users IMHO. Some of them may decide that this is required/recommended workflow for Subversion.
-- Ivan Zhakov
