How do I explicitly set an svn password when checking out a repository from the command line

Question

I'm getting svn: Authorization failed error and I want to make sure that I typed the correct password the first time, so I want to reset the password.

When I try to check out the repository there's no longer a prompt for a password after the password was typed the first time.

Answer 1

Use the command line help :)

svn help co

There you can see:

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

If you want that svn client forgets your password you must delete the appropiate file in ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/