Unfriendly GNOME keyring prompt

Hi,

If you have a default (or blank) Subversion 1.8 ~/.subversion/config and use Subclipse with JavaHL, you'll get prompted on startup of Eclipse to 'allow Subclipse to remove the current password-stores value from the configuration file' (because GNOME keyring password storage doesn't work with JavaHL).

If you click 'OK', the config file will contain a line that reads:

password-stores =

which is a blank value, disabling *all* proper password storage services, not just GNOME keyring.

This is not very friendly and means that services that work fine (e.g. gpg-agent) can't be used without tweaking the configuration back. It also messes with other subversion clients which can use GNOME keyring without any problems.

Should the default behaviour of the prompt be changed so that it allows the other services to be used? Should it automatically use a different configuration directory (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.subclipse.user/16665) and dump the changed config there?

Cheers,

Ben Fitzpatrick

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