Subversion 1.5.5 - --non-interactive option does not work when password stored in OSX keychain

[thewoolleyman@…]

You used to be able to work around this in 1.4:

​http://gist.github.com/24496

Now, however, ANYTIME you do a SVN command from the GUI, it stores the PW in the keychain, which breaks --non-interactive.

This breaks other tools which require on noninteractive svn commands, such as cruisecontrol.rb.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

If you want to see this fixed correctly, please file a bug upstream with subversion.

I'm adding a variant (disable_keychain) to the 1.5.6 port (r47374), which should allow you to work around the issue.

[thewoolleyman@…]

Great. That variant should help us work around the problem. I wasn't sure if this was a bug in the port or the original svn source, thanks for letting me know.

[thewoolleyman@…]

Update - These svn tickets look relevant:

​http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2789 ​http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3059 ​http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3061

[thewoolleyman@…]

This seems to be the most relevant bug: ​http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3059

...but things are worse in 1.6, ANY use of gui auth breaks subsequent --non-interactive usage. Will ask on IRC and try to get an answer/status, and whether a new bug should be opened.

[thewoolleyman@…]

I discussed this on the svn irc with jeremyw (jwhitloc/apache/committer). He verified that this should be handled under bug 3059, and that we will have to wait for svn 1.6 for a fix.

To summarize, the root cause is 1.4 would remember passtype=simple even after use of gui terminal, 1.5 will always replace passtype=keychain on first use of gui terminal. Jeremy says that is the intended behavior in 1.5, the workaround in 1.4 is a bug.

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