Re: Environment variable for alioth login names.

[Martin Meredith <mez@ubuntu.com>]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 06:58:36PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * 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

Also, if you're a DD and your local username is the same as your DD Account name, then there's no need to
even add that in!