Re: [PATCH] optionally use $SVN_USERNAME as login

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> I haven't reviewed the patch, but I was planning to (if no one beat me
> to it), and assuming it's good apply it. Would you, or anyone else,
> have objections to this?
>
> By the way, do we want "SVN_USERNAME", or "SVN_USER" for consistency
> with CVS? I think the former, because it matches our --username
> option and is (to me) more intuitive anyway. I don't mind the slight
> inconsistency with CVS. I think supporting both would only confuse
> people, so we should pick one or the other.

+1 on the addition of a new environment variable. As for which one, I
lean mildly towards SVN_USER, caring little for matching --username.
(Note that we didn't use SVN_EDITOR_CMD despite our command-line
parameter being --editor-cmd.)

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Received on Fri Jul 22 18:14:39 2005