Thanks for the quick response. I just used --username and it worked and
when I rechecked the content of 3524aab2cf3ccb88f71730a386c0efcf, it now has
my id & pw in it. Thanks again.
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Andy Levy" <andy.levy@gmail.com>
To: "Res Pons" <pons32@hotmail.com>
CC: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Changing SVN User
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:57:43 -0500
On 2/27/07, Res Pons <pons32@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I have taken ownership of a linux box which has a previous user's id stored
>in its .subversion path.
>
>$ ls .subversion/auth/svn.simple/
>3524aab2cf3ccb88f71730a386c0efcf
>
>The question: Is it better to delete this file and check out from the Repo
>with my id? Edit the file and just change the user & pw to me since the
>content of the file is in ascii text?
>
>Really the big question is how do I change ownership to me? I just
>realized
>that everything I check out and modify has the previous user's user-id in
>subversion and not mine. Could multiple users coexist on the same machine,
>SAME HOME FOLDER?
Use the --username switch, at least the first time you run an svn
command. I don't recall whether that'll be cached in place of the
previous one or not; I want to say yes.
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