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+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of Composer.
+ *
+ * (c) Nils Adermann <naderman@naderman.de>
+ *     Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
+ *     Till Klampaeckel <till@php.net>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+// is this namespace correct? I mean, who cares... but?
+namespace Composer\Test\Json;
+
+/**
+ * Why does composer force an install when I need an autoloader instead?
+ */
+$root = dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__DIR__)))) . '/src';
+set_include_path($root . ':' . get_include_path());
+
+require_once $root . '/Composer/Autoload/ClassLoader.php';
+$loader = new \Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader;
+$loader->register();
+$loader->setUseIncludePath(true);
+
+//use Symfony\Component\Process\ExecutableFinder;
+//use Composer\Package\Dumper\ArrayDumper;
+use Composer\Repository\VcsRepository;
+use Composer\Repository\Vcs\SvnDriver;
+//use Composer\Util\Filesystem;
+//use Composer\Util\ProcessExecutor;
+use Composer\IO\NullIO;
+
+class SvnDriverTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    private static $gitRepo;
+    private static $skipped;
+
+    public function setUp()
+    {
+        if (self::$skipped) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped(self::$skipped);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Provide some examples for {@self::testCredentials()}.
+     *
+     * @return array
+     */
+    public static function urlProvider()
+    {
+        return array(
+            array('http://till:test@svn.example.org/', ' --no-auth-cache --username "till" --password "test" '),
+            array('http://svn.apache.org/', ''),
+            array('svn://johndoe@example.org', ' --no-auth-cache --username "johndoe" --password "" '),
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider urlProvider
+     */
+    public function testCredentials($url, $expect)
+    {
+        $io  = new \Composer\IO\NullIO;
+        $svn = new SvnDriver($url, $io);
+
+        $this->assertEquals($expect, $svn->getSvnCredentialString());
+    }
+}