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Re: How to change the 'Author' in Tortoise ?

From: Milen A. Radev <milen_at_radev.net>
Date: 2007-03-15 17:48:51 CET

On 15/03/07, Charly <charly.luyet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jared Silva a écrit :
[...]
> > Why do you need to change the author name? It sounds like you are the
> > only one committing to your repository.
>
> No, we are about 10 developers. We have a local network and we access to
> the repository using 'file:///[ServerName]/repos/...'. It works fine and
> I don't wish to change it because we had problems setting up Apache and
> we decided not to use it.

Please read the this -
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.choosing.html#svn.serverconfig.choosing.recommendations
and especially the last paragraph.

>
> When we installed Windows on our computers, we simply used the same user
> name for everybody (which was the enterprise name). So when we installed
> Tortoise, we noticed that all the "commit" were sent with the same
> Author name !

Follow the recommendations and you'll not have this problem.

-- 
Milen A. Radev
Received on Thu Mar 15 17:49:15 2007

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