How to check svn with http authentication on mac

Question

When i do:

svn co http://<url>/<repo> <local_dir>

on my macbook (10.6.6) I get the following message:

svn: OPTIONS of 'http://<url>/<repo>': 200 OK (http://<url>)

without any password hints or anything useful.

<url>is the dev / repo machine on the network. Usually I can do the same check with the development program, but another developer can check it from another Linux window, and window developers can check it locally with the svn tortoise.

Is there anything special I need to do to solve this for mac?
Extra: indeed, I use git-svn, but then I realized that even regular svn does not work, so I thought I would start there. Is there anything else I need to do to use git-svn with http authentication

Answer 1

If you know that the URL requires authentication, you can try if the following works.

svn co http://<url>/<repo> <local_dir> --username user --password password

Edit 1: I just saw this question that gives an explanation 200 OK message. This way you can cross-check your url.