05 December 2007

Using Subversion svn+ssh protocol without typing passwords

I have been having more and more problems using the svn: protocol for Subversion. So I've moved to using the svn+ssh: protocol. The only frustration was having to constantly enter my password (sometimes many times) for each svn command. It turns out that svn+ssh: is using standard SSH protocols, so SSH key authentication solves the problem.

I found a nice write-up on Aaron Toponce's blog on how to set it up.

It is a little more complicated for Windows. I will address that in a future installment.

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