How to checkout using subversion and https

Question

I have just installed subversion and the repository is hosted on Assembla.

Normally when I use windows I just use tortoisesvn and it prompts me for a username and password.

When I try to checkout from the terminal I don't know how to manually specify the username and password and it just freezes when I try to checkout without them (can't ctrl-C the hell outa there).

Here is what I am trying:

svn co https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/comcal/trunk

When I was trying to copy the command line just then I got this:

svn: Server sent unexpected return value (502 Proxy Error) in response to OPTIONS request for 'https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/comcal/trunk'

Answer 1

You can specify a username using

svn co --username your_name https://svn.server.com/repository/trunk

and the password should be prompted afterwards.

However, it's not necessary to specify the username, svn is going to prompt you anyway.

This and more information can be found either in the documentation of svn or using a simple command:

svn help checkout

Answer 2

svn co --username <username> <url>

prompts for the password. So this would be less helpful in automation script.

One may try this:

svn co --username '<username>' --password '<password>' <url>

Single quotes('') are required here. The command execution without quotes gives this error (at least in my case it happened):

svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL '<url>'
svn: E215004: No more credentials or we tried too many times.
Authentication failed