Hi, I'm CC'ing the darcs list in my reply.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:46:31 -0800, Thomas Hartman wrote: > I just updated the patch tag help page to note > > ******************** > > Trouble Pulling > > Does patch-tag keep asking for a password when you are pulling a repo where > you know you are a repo user? It may be a good idea to file a bug report ([email protected]). Do you know any more about when this sort of thing happens? Is it asking for a password many times in a single pull? Do you still have a copy of a repository where Darcs has this undesirable behaviour? What are its _darcs/prefs/sources contents? > Try doing a fresh darcs get in a new directory (eg /tmp). > Oddly enough, this usually solves the problem. > Not sure why. It is strange. At any rate, you can now use that directory, > after migrating changes from your local workiing copy into there of course. > > ******************** > I know this works, because I do it myself. I just don't understand why. > > Is there some subtle ssh cache mechanism going on? For SSH-related stuff darcs has an ssh connection sharing mechanism called darcs transfer-mode. If darcs transfer-mode fails to launch on the other side (for example if darcs on the other end is not a darcs 2), then it falls back to use scp and sftp... which may be what results in the asking-your-password many times problem. Darcs does have a cache system (nothing ssh-specific) which makes it possible for darcs get --lazy to work, and also for darcs get to go *much* faster the second time you run it. Do you think it might be related to your problem? http://wiki.darcs.net/Internals/CacheSystem Thanks, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:[email protected] (Jabber or Google Talk only)
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