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I'm currently setting up a new Ubuntu box for myself at work. I generally have my work related stuff under subversion.

The default method for subversion to store passwords in Ubuntu seems to be passtype = gpg-agent. This works fine with svn on the command line. But if I want to commit from Emacs, it fails.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is using Emacs 25.2.2, if I run M-x vc-print-log I get an error similar to

svn: Unable to connect to a repository at URL https://svn....
svn: No more credentials or we tried too many times

If I use an account where the svn passtype is set to simple (aka plaintext password), Emacs has no issues.

Also, if I run svn log file first and then right after run M-x vc-print-log Emacs has no issues.

Any idea what is going on here, and how to fix it?

From looking at the sources (vc-svn.el) the default --non-interactive option, seems to be the problem. At least if I either change it to --force-interactive then it works. This that removing it also might be an option, will have to wait untill the last use is timed out.

Deleting the option does not solve the problem. But --force-interactive does.

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As is usually the case right after one posts a question, you'll find an answer elsewhere.

After looking in the sources (lisp/vc/vs-svn.el) we learn that unless under darwin svn will be given the --non-interactive option. This seems to be the problem when subversion is using the passtype gpg-agent. Changing it to --force-interactive works (deling it does not).

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