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Re: Changing usernames

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-04-26 19:18:51 CEST

On 4/26/06, Kedzierski, Artur CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV CORONA
<artur.kedzierski@navy.mil> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of moving over an existing
> repository. However, I would like to change the usernames
> that the committers used to match their new usernames.
> I thought using svn dump to dump repo to a file, changing
> the username, and them uploading the file. However,
> the dump tracks the length of the strings so I cannot change
> it to longer/shorter usernames.
> How can I change the usernames?

The last time I did this it was via a hacked version of svndumptool, a
python script for manipulating dump files. Alternatively, you could
just use svn pset to change the svn:author revprops on the revisions
in question.

-garrett

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