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Re: [BIKESHED] "anonymous" username usage in mod_dav_svn.

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-02-18 23:05:29 CET

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:49, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> > I would like to change mod_dav_svn's dav_svn_get_resource() to stop
> > manufacturing a username of "anonymous" when no authenticated username
> > exists, and to use the empty string instead. My reasons:
>
> > - ra_local and ra_svn do not manufacture such names (and never have).
>
> svnserve does; I copied that behavior from mod_dav_svn.
>
> > Any objections?
>
> Not objecting, just pointing it out.
>
> (Though, if the end result is to have no svn:author property, I would
> say the username should be NULL and not the empty string. Some code may
> need to be changed to allow that.)

Oh, I missed that. I keep forgetting that ra_svn also has the
svnserve directory. Thanks for clarifying.

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