git svn clone --password pass gives “Unknown option: password”

Question

I want to clone a svn repository using git, with a username and password given on the command-line.

I can write:

svn checkout --username user --password pass svn://server/repo 

But I can't use --password with git svn clone:

git svn clone --username user --password pass svn://server/repo Unknown option: password 

How can I give the password to git svn clone on the command-line?

Alternatively, is there a kind of --svn-options switch to git-svn?

P.-S. Note that I need to specify it on the command-line, because there are multiple repos on this server with different user/pass, and svn stupidly assumes that all repos use the same username/password, so half of the time I get svn: Authorization failed, without it asking for the password, even if I use --username (it seems to ask for the password sometimes, but it's not robust enough to be used in a script).

Answer 1

git svn uses SVN commands directly and thus the internally saved password of SVN.

Run the command:

svn checkout --username user --password pass svn://server/repo 

and let SVN remember your password.

If this does not work remove the saved SVN authentications:

$HOME/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/* 

Then git svn clone will prompt you for the password.

Answer 2

Just specify the username with --username and you should be prompted for a password.

See git svn --help or man git svn for further information.