How to change user credentials in Subclipse?

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Ajay picture Ajay · Sep 29, 2009 · Viewed 43.3k times · Source

I am using Subclipse (Subversion integration in Eclipse). I now want to change the user credentials in subclipse. How do I do that? That is to login into subversion using another user account.

Answer

Thomas W picture Thomas W · Apr 27, 2012

Delete, or rename, the Eclipse '.keyring' file in Eclipse's configuration folder. This is where the Subclipse SVNKit connector caches your SVN credentials..

[ECLIPSE INSTALL]\configuration\org.eclipse.core.runtime.keyring

If, on the other hand, you're using the JavaHL connector -- or SVN command-line -- then their credentials are stored in the Subversion runtime config folder. Delete or rename the credential file.

On Windows: %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth
On Linux and OSX: ~/.subversion/auth

Sorry about this pig of complexity, for what should be a real version-control system. :-(

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