Git svn clear stored credentials

Recently a change was made in my company in the way the SVN repositories were handled; as a result we had to change the accounts we used to access the repos

Whenever I tried pulling or pushing info into those repositories I was getting errors like :

RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/2001/ufasoli/myproject/trunk': PROPFIND of '/svn/2001/ufasoli/myproject/trunk'
: 403 Forbidden (https://internal.svn.com) at /lib/Git/SVN.pm line 717

I realized that it was because the credential information was cached locally on the machine, so the system was sending old information , the tricky part was that the old accounts allowed authentication on the repositories, they were just no longer authorized to do anything on them, so I was getting an HTTP 403 error and the system was not prompting me for a new password (since the old accounts could still log in...)

So this is how I fixed it on my windows machine:

Under your user folder you should have a folder where subversion stores cached data C:\Users\ulf\.subversion (in my case)

This folder contains an auth folder were you will normally find another 3 folders :

• svn.simple
• svn.ssl.server
• svn.username

To delete the cached credentials you can delete the content of the following folders :

• svn.simple
• svn.ssl.server

Once this folders deleted git should prompt you again for your username/password

Building and installing git 2.x on Windows

So Git 2.x has been out for a few months now and it came with some nice stuff, you can read more about it here

However if you are under windows, the git portage msysgit has yet to release a 2.X portage(as of this writing the latest version is 1.9.4)

If you want to install Git 2 on Windows you will need to build it from the source, and here is how it's done

1. Download the Git build environment

Head up to the Github page https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit and download the latest version from the master branch

Unzip it let's say to c:/tmp/git/msygit-env

2. Download the latest version of git

Head up to the Github page https://github.com/msysgit/git and download the latest version from the master branch

Unzip it let's say to c:/tmp/git/git

3. Copy the git folder

Now copy the entire contents of the c:/tmp/git/git under c:/tmp/git/msygit-env/git

4. Build Git

Now you can fire up a DOS console and head up to the msysgit and build Git

cd c:/tmp/git/msygit-env
msys.bat

Once the build starts you should see some output similar to

-------------------------------------------------------
Building and Installing Git
-------------------------------------------------------
GIT_VERSION = 2.1.0
    * new build flags
    CC credential-store.o
    * new link flags
    CC abspath.o
    CC advice.o
    CC alias.o
    CC alloc.o
    CC archive.o
    CC archive-tar.o

5. Moving the binaries and updating the path

Once the build is finished you will find the git binaires under the /bin folder

So let's say for example that I want to put my git binaries under c:/dev/bin/git2 go ahead and copy the following folders from the c:/tmp/git/msygit-env/git :

• bin
• cmd
• etc
• include
• lib
• libexec
• mingw
• share
• ssl

Please note that I don't think you actually need all those folders but I copied them all just to be sure ..

Now for the final step the PATH; you will need to add the following folders to your PATH :

$PATH;C:\dev\bin\git2\bin;C:\dev\bin\git2\mingw\bin;C:\dev\bin\git2\cmd

Once the cmd prompt restarted you should be able to use your newly build Git

git --version
git version 2.1.0

And there you go if everything went as expected you should be running git 2.x