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I want to store my svn password in the gnome-keyring so it is encrypted and 'secure'. I made the necessary changes to ~/.subversion/config, but even after running a few svn commands, I do not see an entry for SVN in the keyring.

What else do I need to do to get SVN using gnome-keyring? I will also be using this with git-svn.

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What method are you using to access SVN? SSH, HTTPS, SVNSERVE? –  Zoredache Jul 19 '11 at 17:11
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To run git-svn, you may have to build your own Git. I found this patch to support additional authentication sources. The patch looks kind of involved, and the post about it is almost a year old. As far as I can tell though, a) it hasn't made it into Git core yet, and b) Git doesn't seem to have a central issue tracker (!!!!!!) so I don't even know how to suggest that they do so. :(

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To run regular SVN with passwords stored in gnome-keyring, your .subversion/config should have


and in .subversion/servers


There's more if you're using client certificates, but that's the basics. Then, you need binaries from CollabNet Subversion starting at version 1.6.16 -- the current I think is 1.6.17.

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Thanks, looks like that was what I was missing for SVN; however, for git-svn, I need to do something else. –  Walter White Aug 17 '11 at 11:23
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