Ivan Zhakov wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 17:48:42 +0400: > 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.
It would be a very useful feature. Have you ever configured a cron job that runs 'svn update' on a password-protected working copy? And then needed to change the cron job's password? 'svn credentials add' is exactly what I needed when I did that. That said, though, you don't have to agree. We aren't discussing whether to create an 'add' subcommand --- we are discussing whether 'svn auth' should be renamed. I am leaning towards a "Yes" on that question.
