Mark Mielke wrote on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 20:22:50 -0500: > On 12/30/2011 02:36 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >Mark Mielke wrote on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 14:24:25 -0500: > > > >>With the caveat being that tools that assume that svn:author was set by > >>the Subversion API may no longer recognize the author... > >"by the Subversion API" isn't the right phrase, but anyway: by default > >the svn:author properties are set to the authenticated username (when > >such is available) and cannot be changed unless the administrator runs > >either 'svnadmin' or installs a pre-revprop-change hook. > > > >There's nothing preventing people from having, say, spaces in their > >usernames. So clients should cope with that. > > > >There is also nothing preventing people from having newlines in their > >usernames... but now, the fact the library would allow this doesn't mean > >it's a good idea to do this. > > I think you are not understanding my concern. If svn:author is only > ever displayed to the user - then "authenticated username" may not > be a desirable form to use. For teams of 10 people, sure you can > recognize the uid of everybody in the team. But what about teams of > 100, or teams of 1000?
AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute cn Then you can do % svn commit --username "Daniel Shahaf" and the logs will show ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1 | Daniel Shahaf | strftime(...) | 1 line ------------------------------------------------------------------------
