Re: ediff-revision and "Using keyboard-interactive authentication^M" in text

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:24:03 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >It doesn't save the configuration unless you tell it.  However, if you
> >invoke PuTTY interactively (i.e., not the command-line plink.exe, but
> >putty.exe itself), it pops up a session configuration dialog.  There,
> >you can configure a session for subversions.gnu.org and save it.  That
> >configuration will henceforth be used by plink.
> >  
> >
> Are those settings then used when plink is called from cvs.exe if I 
> specify for example
> 
>     cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs

Yes.  plink.exe looks in the PuTTY configuration file for a session
that names the repository machine, and if found, uses its settings.

> BTW is subversions.gnu.org the same as savannah.gnu.org?

They are resolved to the same IP address, so I guess they are the
same.

> ediff-revison calls "cvs" with some arguments. Maybe it is then 
> important how cvs is invoked. What should I look for?

I don't know; for starters, just post here what is the exact command
line used bu ediff-revison to invoke cvs.