Comments on: Subversion 1.4 adds Keychain Support

By: greggT

greggT — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:48:53 +0000

xcode can cache my credentials — but i’m not confortable merging with that — but not command line.
i’d like to use my keychain instead of messing with public/private keys.
i still have to type my pw every svn command, sometimes 2-3 times depending on the cmd.

SYMPTOM nothing ever appears in my ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple dir.
no files, nothing… using
svn+ssh://USER@XYZZY.com/…/trunk

i’ve tried checking out a whole new tree, ’svn ls’, ’svn update’, etc.
svn client v1.6.5 on macosx 10.6.2:

any ideas as to what i’m doing wrong?

thanks!
-g

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By: pjm

pjm — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:15:52 +0000

OK, thanks: that’s one neurosis I can happily lose! Apologies for the language maven-like tone of the first post. (Might still take a while to lose; I guess it’s a matter of stopping the mental substitution of 10,000 within sentences. “A ten thousand of…” etc etc. Translation was never my strongest point.)

As for “comprises”: I think it’s not such a terrible term in that it conveys a positive sort of gathering action (ie, a pushing together) that’s not present in “composed of” or “consists of”.

By: Daniel J. Luke

Daniel J. Luke — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:01:41 +0000

Wikipidia quotes Merriam-Webster as saying that the noun form is actually the older form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=myriad

By: \TeX as bob

\TeX as bob — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:55:03 +0000

and, actually, “a myriad of” is an noun. for example, “we brought dictionaries for a myriad of student” is perfectly acceptable with “a myriad of” serving as a noun. of course “myriad” is also an adjective and you can say, “we brought dictionaries for myriad students”. it’s another one of those, “use it however you want” words. let’s hear it for living languages.

By: \TeX as bob

\TeX as bob — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:11:05 +0000

“comprises” is one of those made up tech writer terms. yes, yes, yes, i know it is really a very old word, but no one but tech writers, linquists, and political theorists use it. google or ask comprises and you’ll see what i mean. anyway, tech writers learn to use it in tech writer school and now spread it around on tech writer blogs. too bad. it’s awkward, is better replaced with “consists of”–which is the source of “comprises” being misused as “comprised of”–or the usage should change to “is comprised of”. it sounds better anyway. you know, changing the usage of words is what keeps living languages living. it’s okay. so, ah, stop your chair from spinning.

By: pjm

pjm — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:09:46 +0000

Please: stop the madness!

**MYRIAD**, not “a myriad of”. It’s an adjective. (Sorry; it’s one of two misuses that make my chair spin. The other winner is “is comprised of”, instead of “comprises”. Ah well, nothing a session or two of therapy shouldn’t be able to fix…)