SVN change username

Question

I found a lot of examples on how to change the username for specific revisions and so on   But what I need is this  I did a checkout with the authentication credentials of a workmate and need to change it to my credentials for future commits   I cannot just checkout with my credentials due to the many changes that have been done already     Anyone familiar with this

User · Accepted Answer

You can change the user with

Subversion 1.6 and earlier:

svn switch --relocate protocol://currentUser@server/path protocol://newUser@server/path

Subversion 1.7 and later:

svn relocate protocol://currentUser@server/path protocol://newUser@server/path

To find out what protocol://currentUser@server/path is, run

svn info

in your working copy.

User · Answer

The easiest way to do this is to simply use the --username option on your next checkout or commit  For example   svn commit --username newUser  or  svn co --username newUser  It will then be cached and will be used as the default username for future commands   See also  In Subversion can I be a user other than my login name

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Also  for those who happened to realize too late  that they committed with the wrong credentials  the solution  after the fact  is to change the svn author of that revision  see this question  Basically the syntax is   svn propset --revprop -r  revision number  svn author  new username

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Based on Ingo Kegel s solution I created a  small  bash script to change the username in all subfolders  Remember to    Change  lt NEW USERNAME gt  to the new username  Change  lt OLD USERNAME gt  to the current username  if you currently have no username set  simply remove  lt OLD USERNAME gt       In the code below the svn command is only printed out  not executed   To have the svn command executed  simply remove the echo and whitespace in front of it  just above popd    for d in        do echo  d   pushd  d     url   svn info   grep  URL  svn       url   echo   url  URL          newurl   echo  url   sed  s svn ssh      lt OLD USERNAME gt   svn ssh      lt NEW USERNAME gt          echo  Old url    url   echo  New url    newurl     echo svn relocate  url  newurl     popd     done   Hope you find it useful

User · Answer

The command  that can be executed   svn up --username newUsername   Works perfectly      P S  Just a hint   --username  option  can be executed on any  svn  command  not just update

User · Answer

Go to Tortoise SVN -- gt  Settings -- gt  Saved Data    There is an option to clear Authentication Data  click on the clear button  and it will allow you to select which connection you wanted to clear userid pwd for   After you do this  any checkout or update activity  it will reprompt for the userid and password

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I believe you could create you own branch  using your own credential  from the same trunk as your workmate s branch  merge from your workmate s branch to your working copy and then merge from your branch  All future commit should be marked as coming from you

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for Win10 you should remove this folder and close open your IDE     C  Users User AppData Roaming Subversion auth     also in my projects no   subversion  folders  only   svn

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I   ve had the exact same problem and found the solution in Where does SVN client store user authentication data     cd to    subversion auth   Do fgrep -l  lt yourworkmatesusernameORtheserverurl gt       Delete the file found  The next operation on the repository will ask you again for username password information     For Windows  the steps are analogous  the auth directory is in  APPDATA  Subversion     Note that this will only work for SVN access schemes where the user name is part of the server login so it   s no use for repositories accessed using file

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You could ask your colleague to create a patch  which will collapse all the changes that have been made into a single file that you can apply to your own check out  This will update all of your files appropriately and then you can revert the changes on his side and check yours in

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If your protocol is http and you are using Subversion 1 7  you can switch the user at anytime by simply using the global --username option on any command   When Ingo s method didn t work for me  this was what I found that worked

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