Enable SSH agent forwarding for Capistrano
Having to repeatedly enter passwords is a drag. And enabling password based SSH login to your SVN servers is a security risk. So I'm pretty excited that Chris Andrews implemented SSH agent forwarding into net-ssh-1.1.0.
Update to the latest version of net-ssh with:
To enable it, put the following into your ~/.caprc:
This stopped me getting prompted for a password by my subversion every time I ran 'cap deploy'.