How can I change the committer of an old revision in SVN?

Question

I have a whole heap of legacy code that I checked into my SVN repository. I checked it in under my user name. I'd like to change the author of that commit to another user, 'legacy', in order to clean up the svn blame printouts.

Answer 1

You need to have have a pre-revprop-change hook in your repository hooks directory that will allow changes to the svn:author property. (An executable script containing just "exit 0" will do.) Once you have this, then you can do:

svn propedit --revprop -rrev svn:author url

and make the necessary changes.