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On Windows, the Subversion client stores passwords in the %APPDATA%/Subversion/auth/ directory. On Windows 2000 and later, the standard Windows cryptography services are used to encrypt the password on disk.
In ~/.subversion/config, you probably have store-passwords = no. Change it to yes (or just comment it out because it defaults to yes), and the next time you give Subversion your password it should save it.
You might want to ensure that the owner and permissions of ~/.subversion/config are correct (no public or group access; 600).
It depends on the protocol you're using. If you're using SVN + SSH, the SVN client can't save your password because it never touches it - the SSH client prompts you for it directly. In this case, you can use an SSH key and ssh-agent to avoid the constant prompts. If you're using the svnserve protocol or HTTP(S), then the SSH client is handling your password and can save it.
Try clearing your .subversion folder in your home directory and try to commit again. It should prompt you for your password and then ask you if you would like to save the password.
I had to edit ~/.subversion/servers. I set store-plaintext-passwords = yes (was no previously). That did the trick. It might be considered insecure though.
Please note the following paragraph from the ~/.subversion/servers file:
Both 'store-passwords' and 'store-auth-creds' can now be specified in the 'servers' file in your config directory. Anything specified in this section is overridden by settings specified in the 'servers' file.
It is at least for SVN version 1.6.12. So keep in mind to edit the servers file also as it overrides ~/.subversion/config.
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