TortoiseSVN Update Command Line Arguments

Question

I've run into an interesting annoyance that I'm trying to remove.

I'm creating a batch file to automatically update TortoiseSVN repos to the correct revisions for my technicians.

However, when executing svn update on the command line, SVN assumes that the current user login is the username for SVN.

That's not correct on our tech's machines. We have a local user of "Tech" that can be accessed by everyone and this user login runs the batch file. When we do an svn update from the batch file, it'll ask for a password with the username of "Tech" which isn't on SVN. Then it'll ask for a username and password input because it couldn't login with the previous credentials.

I'm trying to skip that unnecessary step, but I don't know other command line arguments (like --force --no-auth-cache ) that will help.

Is there a way to force TortoiseSVN to ask for the username instead of assuming it is the login name?

Update: found the options for the command line on TortoiseSVN, but don't know which to use correctly - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.html

Answer 1

SVN assumes that the current user login is the username for SVN.

No, and never was so

From svn help update

>Global options:
>  --username ARG           : specify a username ARG
>  --password ARG           : specify a password ARG

But The Right Way (tm) will be

• Remove stored wrong credentials from %AppData%\\Subversion\\auth (most probably \\svn.simple ) (URLs are plain-text parameters inside files)
• Login once to needed repository (with any command, which require authentication) with --username , --password , using correct credentials
• Remove auth. data from update command (cached data will be used)