On 30.11.2012 09:04, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > 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?
And besides, "username" is the authentication token, which is usually exactly what Eric doesn't want to put into svn:author. :) -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
