Subversion in Intellij keeps asking for authentication

Question

I am trying to checkout a project from subversion but for some reason it doesn't let me.

At first when I put the URL, it gives me options such as whether I want to authenticate via password,ssh agent or ssh key etc. I choose the authentication with password option. At this stage the login is successful as I can browse my repository.

However, when I go to checkout a project from my repository, it asks for authentication again; I input the password but it keeps asking for the password again

The following window keeps popping. enter image description here

I have tried the following solution without success:

Cleared the authentication cache from the intellij subversion settings.
Uninstalled and installed intellij again
Found online that the following line might help if added to idea.exe.vmoptions

-Dsvnkit.http.methods=Basic,Digest,NTLM

but this didn't work either.

Any advice?

Can I assume you are selecting the "Save Credentials" checkbox? (sorry for the obvious question, but don't want to assume anything) — Michael, Sep 02 '14 at 15:39
What platform are you one? What version of IntelliJ? This answer may help if you are on Mac OS: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13585631/intellij-wont-save-svn-authentication-information — Michael, Sep 02 '14 at 15:43

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 19 '19 at 06:02

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In IntelliJ, the problem can be solved using the following steps for the following versions.

IntelliJ 2018.1

Go to Settings -> Version Control -> Subversion
Check the option Enable interactive mode.

IntelliJ 14

Go to Settings -> Version Control -> Subversion
Uncheck the option Use command line client.

edited Feb 19 '19 at 06:02

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answered Mar 11 '15 at 12:33

Edu Costa

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This is broken as of `2018.1`. I had success with going to `Settings -> Version Control -> Subversion`, and checking `Enable interactive mode`. – the_storyteller May 21 '18 at 15:02
@the_storyteller I did that and restarted IntelliJ, no luck :/ – Rahul Desai Aug 20 '18 at 17:27
@the_storyteller please post it as answer so I can upvote ;> – Line Feb 15 '19 at 08:13
@Line, I edited the above answer. If the functionality changes and the answer is edited, it'll be correct and still have the most upvotes so people'll be able to find it easily. – the_storyteller Feb 15 '19 at 18:16
@the_storyteller I don't see the edit. Besides, I kind of don't agree with you - your answer would be just different. Additionaly, from the edit you would have 2 points, if you post an answer like I ask you to, only from my upvote you would have 10 ;) – Line Feb 18 '19 at 08:38

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 14 '15 at 13:58

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You can go to the svn console and perform any svn command like:

svn list https://www.repo.rr.com/svn/main/team/gaurav

Then svn promt password and ask if you want to save password. If you save password, Intellij will see the password too.

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answered Jun 11 '15 at 09:23

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If you are using more than one username for some reason or have recently changed your password, then you might have to delete this file. This path is relevant for Macs- /.subversion/auth/svn.simple/ – thisdotnull May 17 '17 at 16:24

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '14 at 14:29

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When I checkout the project, I have to set a few options such as directory location, subversion version. I checked the 1.7 version instead of the 1.8 one and it worked. So I guess it was something to do with using the wrong version of subversion. This was on windows 7, intellij 13.1.4

Hope it helps

answered Sep 05 '14 at 14:29

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Same here though I had to go from 1.7 to 1.6 on a Mac, Intellij 13.1.5. On a Windows same repository is checked out in 1.7 format. – homaxto Nov 07 '14 at 06:13

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 27 '23 at 11:33

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I had the same problem, and it turned out that (at least on Windows), it was using the "svn" command-line client, which happened to be version 1.7 (and I think my server is on 1.8). So I solved the problem by going into settings and unticking the "Use command-line client" option. Then it worked fine, presumably using its internal svn client.

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answered Feb 16 '15 at 10:36

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 21 '23 at 12:46

I could fix it by specifying the exact path to the 'svn' executable,
in the settings -> version control -> subversion window. Apparently the auto detection functionality of Jet brains-products behaves wired sometimes.

Under Linux you can easily find that path by running which svn in a Terminal.

Subversion in Intellij keeps asking for authentication

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