Re: Bug#399305: ITP: subversive -- The Subversive is a Eclipse plug-in that provides Subversion support
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Compatibility is not the question. It is clearly inferior. For one, it
> has no support for JavaHL. At least everything I can find on the
> upstream web site indicates that it only supports JavaSVN. Anyhow, what
> this means is that the only way to make use of ssh keys is by providing
> your passphrase every time or by having it stored in plain text on your
> hard drive.
"clearly inferior" sounds a bit strong on this basis alone. I went
through the features described on the website, and some seemed to be
lacking in subclipse. And we don't have subclipse in Debian (yet).
I'm asking about compatibility because I am currenlty using the
subclipse plugin (and it is being packaged for Debian), installed
locally, but would like to switch painlessly to anything which appears
first in Debian and covers my basic needs.
> This is because JavaSVN has no way to communicate to an ssh-agent. I
> have emailed the JavaSVN developers about it. AFAIK they have no
> intentions of trying to support ssh-agent because it is either not
> possible or too hard with JavaSVN.
>
> This means that if you want to use your svn+ssh repo in half-way secure
> fashion, you can't with this plugin. Probably better to stick with
> subclipse.
Does it work if you load your keys (and type your passphrase) before
using JavaSVN? And if you have a graphical ssh-askpass installed?
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