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RE: How to change the owner of a working copy.

From: DW Dennis Wheeler <dwheeler_at_ag.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:31:08 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2009a_at_ryandesign.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:10 PM
> To: Anthony Cagle
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: How to change the owner of a working copy.
>
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 14:29, Anthony Cagle wrote:
>
> > I have an svn repository that was checked out by user1 and I would
> > like to change that working copy to be owned by user2, so
> that user2
> > can perform updates and commits to and from that working
> copy. I do
> > not want to delete the working copy and check out a new one with
> > user2.
> >
> > Is there any way to change the owner of the working copy?
>
> It's just files and directories on your disk, so change the
> ownership the same way you do for any other item in your OS,
> e.g. chown on Unix- like OSes or I don't know what on Windows.
>

but you'll probably want to use the -u flag when commiting changes
so that the changes are commited by the new user rather than
the old user (as recorded in .svn/entries)

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