[Gambas-devel] Subversion

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014, Willy Raets wrote:
> On zo, 2014-06-29 at 20:10 +0200, Tobias Boege wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014, Willy Raets wrote:
> > > On zo, 2014-04-13 at 15:44 +0200, Tobias Boege wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Willy Raets wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Beno??t granted me write access to the Gambas svn repo a while ago.
> > > > > This so I would be able to upload translations myself, instead of
> > > > > sending all to him.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I had a look at the instructions in the Gambas
> > > > > Wiki(http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/svn).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Somehow it is not working for me, so either something in the
> > > > > instructions is not quite as it should or I am misunderstanding them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For checkout wiki says:
> > > > > svn checkout --username=<user> svn
> > > > > +ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> > > > > 
> > > > > I replaced user with my Source Forge account name that Beno??t granted
> > > > > write access, but this generated some errors:
> > > > > 
> > > > > willy at ...734... ~/Gambas3 $ svn checkout --username=<myusername> svn
> > > > > +ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> > > > > [1] 3703
> > > > > bash: /usr/bin/lt: File or directory does not exist
> > > > > bash: svn+ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk: File
> > > > > or directory does not exist
> > > > > willy at ...734... ~/Gambas3 $ svn: E205001: Try 'svn help' for more info
> > > > > svn: E205001: Not enough arguments provided
> > > > > 
> > > > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > > > 
> > > > > P.S. I have done checkouts before, but just to compile and install
> > > > > Gambas, never with write access. I have looked at svn help but it is not
> > > > > helpful at all.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > "<" is an HTML entity for "<", so the above --username parameter string
> > > > would look like "--username=<myusername>", so that only denotes a
> > > > placeholder. The correct line is:
> > > > 
> > > > $ svn co --username=name svn+ssh://...
> > > > 
> > > > where you literally replace "name" by your username.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Tobi
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Finally had time to go on with this, but it is still not working.
> > > I have done exactly as supposed to:
> > > 
> > > $ svn checkout --username=<replaced with my svn username> svn
> > > +ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> > > 
> > > Next in terminal I first enter my password (3x) belonging to the
> > > useraccount on sourceforge used in checkout.
> > > 
> > > Password: 
> > > Password: 
> > > Password: 
> > > 
> > > Next I get next is this?? What password is needed here?
> > > 
> > > gambas at ...733...'s password: 
> > > gambas at ...733...'s password: 
> > > gambas at ...733...'s password: 
> > > svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from
> > > 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file.
> > > svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly
> > > 
> > > So no success in getting trunk downloaded to do some translations.
> > > 
> > 
> > You're trying to connect as Benoit (gambas at ...733...). It's a bit
> > confusing because he has the same username on sourceforge as the project
> > is called :-)
> > 
> > OK, for me (tobiasboe), the working line is:
> > 
> > $ svn checkout --username=tobiasboe svn+ssh://tobiasboe@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> 
> Okay thanks, this makes sense.
> I updated the instructions in the Wiki so they make more sense as well
> using <user>@svn.code.sf.net/p.... instead of gambas :)
> 
> It is all working fine now.
> 
> When commiting do I need to do:
> $ EDITOR=gedit svn commit --username=....
> 
> or just
> $ EDITOR=gedit svn commit
> 

I ran successfully without the --username parameter. I think svn keeps that
somewhere after you checked out.

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