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Tortoise SVN - different credentials for same repository server

I have googled a lot on internet/stack overflow, with no success. Finally came here to ask a question.

Summary: Tortoise SVN - different credentials for same SVN server for different repository.

Background: I have two different SVN repositories created on our intranet server. Out of which,

  1. One is shared among a group members (we call it TechnicalGroup) - https://intranet/svn/TG. This repo is accessible thru a common username (say TG).
  2. Second is just for my current project - https://intranet/svn/PrjBala. This repo is accessible thru an individual username (say bala).

Problem: Both these repos are created on same SVN server (i.e. URL). Now once checking out first repo (i.e. TG), if I am trying to checkout 2nd one (i.e. bala), it is directly checking out with "TG" and not prompting me for credentials.

Solution required: I want to set "TG"-credentials for first repo and "bala"-credentials for second repo. I am using Tortoise SVN.

Please help/guide me to achieve my goal.

Solution

  • I'm three years late for the party but I came here while looking for an answer to the same question (and yeah, we are still using SVN...).

    You can edit your hosts file and create a new entry there pointing to the same IP address of your SVN server, for instance:

    192.168.0.100 intranet-svn-tg intranet-svn-bala

    And then, for project TG, you'd use https://intranet-svn-tg/svn/TG and for PrjBala you should use https://intranet-svn-bala/svn/PrjBala. In theory, this should have your credentials saved differently for them.

    It works as expected in my Linux machine, I haven't tested it on windows but I believe it will work the same.

    If you need information on how to edit the hosts file, I hope this will be helpful: https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/