On 12/6/2010 4:21 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/6/2010 03:39, James Kosin wrote: >>> svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp >>> --username xxxxxxx --password xxxxxxxxx >>> >>> The user name and password stuff is pretty much optional until you >>> have to check-in... I think. >> Actually you never need it for checkout, just for checkin. When >> you check out with a view to checking in changes, be sure to >> use https, for some reason > With "some" probably including the goal to not send committers' > credentials as plain text over the network. > > >> that's required or you won't be able to check in your changes later. > If you used the wrong protocol for checkout, there is a simple fix: Just > use svn switch relocate, see also: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re27.html > > > For more information on the Apache version control system (including > information on how to change your subversion password): > > http://apache.org/dev/version-control.html > > > Isabel SVN complains that it is not the same repo and does not perform the move. I ended up having to delete and re-checkout with the https prefix. I even tried the --force option and it still did not perform the switch. Maybe my version of SVN....
James
