format of svn:author

On Sun, 01 Jan 2012, Mark Mielke wrote:
>> Another idea is to change the revprop's value in the pre-commit
>> or post-commit hook: [...]
>
> 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.

If your third party tools can't extract the unique ID from
svn:author = "Display Name <uniqueid_at_domain>" then perhaps the
problem lies at least as much in your third party tools as in
subversion.

--apb (Alan Barrett)
Received on 2012-01-02 08:53:10 CET