On Sat, 01 Dec 2012, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
I've lost count of the number of Subversion repo lifts I've done (has to be more than a dozen at this point), and in no case have I ever seen *anything* but a local Unix ID in the svn:author property.
Yes, it's probably true that most svn repositories use short strings that resemble unix user ids, and a lot of the svn documentation uses such strings in examples. But it's also true that the admin can use almost any string they like. In repositories that I have set up, I have always used short strings that resemble local unix IDs, but in most cases those strings would not have been valid unix user names on the server host.
Perhaps it would be a good first step to add examples to the documentation, showing how the admin can use "Full Name <email@address>" in the svn:author field, with all the common access methods.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
