TortoiseSVN is a client for SVN. And it’s what people love most about SVN. Learn best practices for using TortoiseSVN GUI client. And compare using TortoiseSVN to using P4EXP (Helix Core). TortoiseSVN is an Apache subversion client. It allows you to control different versions of a given source code, which facilitates team work, but most importantly, it allows having access to the history of the changes you have made. Therefore, by opening two different versions of the same file side by side, you can easily notice the differences. Make TortoiseSVN Always Prompt for Username and Password. When you perform a commit in TortoiseSVN an authentication box pops up prompting you for a Username and Password. The “Save authentication” option is enabled by default (See Figure 1). When this option is disabled, TortoiseSVN will not save your credentials and you’ll be prompted.
I’ve had my virtual machine (the one I use for development) rebuilt today, and to minimize overhead, we simply cloned a VM that had the desired settings.
Normally when you do that, everything goes smoothly, and you should have your VM up and running in a matter of minutes (only the time taken copy the files across).
One thing that buggered me though, was the fact that when I tried to commit files via SVN, they got committed under another user name.
It didn’t take me long to figure out that the username it was using, was from whoever did the last commit in the machine it was cloned from.
It’s not very obvious from a context point of view what the necessary steps are for you to change the user name and password on Tortoise SVN.
To do so, you simply need to:
- Right click in any folder, go to “TortoiseSVN” on the context menu;
- Select “Settings”;
- In the settings box, locate the item called “Saved Data”;
- Click the “Clear” button that sits next to “Authentication Data”;
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You won’t have any sort of feedback by doing that, but next time you try to perform any action via TortoiseSVN, it will prompt you for login and password.
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Don’t forget to mark “save password” on the same prompt where you added your user name and password, so you don’t need to type it every time you perform any action.