Martin Furter wrote on Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:51:20 +0530: > On 11/30/12 00:55, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >> Ben Reser<b...@reser.org>: >>> The only thing that's really lacking here is a good way to pass along >>> extra property values in an easy to configure way per >>> server/repository so that you can use a client defined value to put it >>> in svn:author. I don't really see adding support for something like >>> that as terribly difficult. The only caveat I would make is that you >>> should realize the change here is a client side change and that it'll >>> take some time for users to upgrade clients (most distros are still >>> shipping SVN 1.6 over a year after 1.7 released). >>> >>> Once you have something like that, you can expose it to the hook >>> scripts and they can change the svn:author field to whatever the local >>> repository prefers. If local repositories want to store the local >>> authenticated user in a different property they can also do this. >> >> Sounds like I should write that patch to make a preferred-ID string >> available out of ~/.subversion/config, then. As soon as possible. > > I wanted to reply that this should go into ~/.subversion/servers. But i > found the entry "username" in there. So just add a username entry to the > global section.
If you can have a username= in the per-server section, you probably can have it _today_ in the [global] section too and it would take effect (just like N other options that can be set at either global or per-server scope)... So you'd need to invent a new option?
