Subversion ignoring “--password” and “--username” options

Question

When I try to do any svn command and supply the --username and/or --password options, it prompts me for my password anyways, and always will attemp

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, I wanted to use a different user name for a svn+ssh repository. In the end, I used svn relocate (as described in in this answer. In my case, I'm using svn 1.6.11 and did the following:

svn switch --relocate \
    svn+ssh://olduser@svnserver/path/to/repo \
    svn+ssh://newuser@svnserver/path/to/repo

where svn+ssh://olduser@svnserver/path/to/repo can be found in the URL: line output of svn info command. This command asked me for the password of newuser.

Note that this change is persistent, i.e. if you want only temporarily switch to the new username with this method, you'll have to issue a similar command again after svn update etc.