confusing example in the SVN book

[Jens Seidel]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:20:00PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>  $ whoami
> -harry
> +harryc
>  
>  $ svn list svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project

Maybe it would be more intuitive if you use
svn+ssh://harrys@host.example.com/repos/project
(untested in this example, but I always embed the username in the URL).

> -harry at host.example.com's password:  *****
> +harrys at host.example.com's password:  *****
 
>          <literal>host.example.com</literal>, authenticating as the
> -        user <literal>harry</literal>, then spawning a private
> +        user <literal>harrys</literal> (according to SSH user
> +        configuration), then spawning a private

Yep, it is also possible using SSH's user configuration on the client
host (.ssh/config: "User" keyword).

Jens