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Ron Deijkers
Ron Deijkers

Reputation: 3101

Change username in VisualSVN

We are using VisualSVN (free version) and have users in it with their firstnames as usernames. We now want to change the users to firstname.lastname.

VisualSVN does not seem to provide a function for this. I wonder if it is possible to change the usernames in the console perhaps. I cannot find any information on it because most of the related problems lead to changing the user of e.g. a commit. But that is actually exactly what I want to keep in tact. I could of course delete the users and create new ones but I actually want the commits to still be related to the correct users.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1094

Answers (1)

Dialecticus
Dialecticus

Reputation: 16779

As far as I know (not much) strings that denote revision authors, and that are stored with every commit in property svn:author, are just strings. There are no relations to be made with some VisualSVN user database. The string can be changed to anything, including to something that is not a username.

Best (and AFAIK also only) course of action is to remove existing users, add new users, and run some script on all repositories to rename svn:author property for every revision.

Upvotes: 2

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