why is svn not asking for password

[oldefortran]

if I gave the wrong password the first time?
I have to do
rm -rf ~/.subversion to make it ask again

is there a better way for doing svn co svn://ipnumber/foo bar ???

[bin-doph]

open ~/.subversion/config

read the comments

edit the [auth]-section

[oldefortran]

I want it to store password, but it should ask if the password was wrong, as any sane application should (I think).
Is that possible?