Re: Environment variable for alioth login names.

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Charles Plessy [Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:51:00 +0900]:

> Dear all,

Hola,

> I am playing with Joey Hess's `mr' tool and try to prepare a configuration file
> shareable by people having the same interests. I have a lines like this:

> [debian-med/insighttoolkit]
> checkout = svn co svn+ssh://${ALIOTHLOGIN}@svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/insighttoolkit/trunk/

> I was just wondering if some scripts are already using an environment variable
> for storing the alioth login name (ALIOTHLOGIN above), so that I can use the
> same and reduce environment chaos…

In my opinion, the proper way to address this issue is to configure a
username for svn.debian.org in ~/.ssh/config; that way
svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/... works directly, without having to specify a
username.

Example (if you're a DD):

    Host *.debian.org
        User foo

Else:

    Host alioth.debian.org svn.debian.org git.debian.org
        User foo-guest

HTH,

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