On 12/31/2011 09:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Mark Mielke wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 01:00:12 -0500:
>> On 12/30/2011 09:35 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute cn
>>>
>>> Then you can do
>>>
>>> % svn commit --username "Daniel Shahaf"
>>>
>>> and the logs will show
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> r1 | Daniel Shahaf | strftime(...) | 1 line
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> We use this for a few services - but note how now instead of losing
>> the full name, it now loses the unique identifier. In a company of
>> 1,000+ people, there is a good chance for overlap of "cn". There
>> might be only one Mark Mielke, but other names such as John Sullivan
>> there could be many. The "cn" is not a unique identifier and cannot
>> be used to key off. It is for display purposes only.
>>
> Another idea is to change the revprop's value in the pre-commit or
> post-commit hook:
> ..
> author=`svnlook propget --revprop -t $TXN svn:author`
> svnadmin setrevprop -t $TXN svn:author "`getent passwd $author | cut -d: -f5 | cut -d, -f1`<$author_at_localdomain>"
> ..
> and then people still authenticate with their uid's, but all existing
> tools will automatically show DVCS-style name+address author names.
This is what we've been doing for about two years. It has the
consequence that tools don't automatically match unique identifier to
commit as they no longer match.
> And if _that_ 's not good enough... what Stefan said: someone needs to
> sit down, define a problem, design a solution, and push it through.
> Perhaps it's as simple as defining a few new revprops?
Yes. This is what would be required to address this requirement permanently.
--
Mark Mielke<mark_at_mielke.cc>
Received on 2012-01-01 09:54:12 CET