Re: Unfriendly GNOME keyring prompt

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Fitzpatrick, Ben <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?



If you have the option in the config file without gnome-keyring included it
will not prompt you and you also have the option in the Eclipse preferences
of overriding the path to the file so that it leaves the default
~/.subversion path alone.


-- 
Thanks

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/

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