Eric S. Raymond wrote on Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:25 -0400: > Since pepple are posting Subversion 2.0 wishlists, here's mine. I write > as the person who has probably done more repository conversion work > and repository surgery than any other single person. > > 1. DVCS-style committer IDs. > > That is, not "esr" but "Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com>". As far as > I can tell the svn:author property is never interpreted in any other > way than by testing field equality, so I can't see this change being > complicated.
Previous discussion: https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-12/0016.shtml > Advantages: Now repository identities aren't tied to the local > /etc/passwd, so histories don't become inintelligible when you rehost them. In 2009 we migrated our repository and had a use-case for a 'svndumpfilter map-users zhakov=ivan julianf=julianfoad' command. We never implemented that command in Subversion itself, but it remains a valid use-case.
