What is the cause and solution to SVN: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge?

Question

If you search around the web you will see this question asked a lot but there are no clear answers. Here is my particular case.

I am using Versions SVN client on a m

Answer 1

Best to just use SVN to copy trunk over to tags

svn cp http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/xxx/trunk http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/xxx/tags/1.0 -m "tagging 1.0"

That should work just fine if you're having a problem with git svn tag.