Bug#319881: subversion: [psvn] cannot type in passphrase for svn+ssh

[Frank Küster]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote:

> In the synchronous case, because you cannot use any commands
> while Emacs is waiting, a process filter would have to detect
> the password prompt and prompt you in a minibuffer.  This would
> presumably be done with a regexp, kept in a variable so that it
> can be adjusted if the prompt is translated to a different
> language.

In pcvs.el, x11-ssh-askpass is used.

> Some commands, e.g. svn-status-show-svn-diff-for-marked-files and
> svn-status-mv, run the svn program separately for each file, so
> you might have to enter the password multiple times.

Since I'm using ssh-agent, I only have to enter it once.

Just look at pcvs.el.

Thank you, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer