How to do svn commit as different user?

Question

I did checkout of my codebase via

'svn co svn+ssh://[email protected]/var/lib/svne2/edumate2/trunk/ trunk/'

I wrote little web application to do merge and check in into the code base that works nicely. Now I want to make this application available for developers. Right now all commits are made under my name.

How can I do commit under different svn user?

I tried svn --username kon ci -m 'EDU-8319 into trunk' /srv/www/htdocs/merging/trunk and the commit went successfully but under my name. svn didn't display any error nor asked for kon's password.

Answer 1

Another option is to add a config file to your ~/.ssh directory so svn+ssh always uses this user:

Host svn.server.hostname
  User svn.username

For more info check: http://www.highlevelbits.com/2007/04/svn-over-ssh-prompts-for-wrong-username.html

If found this solution via tjstankus @ Subversion ignoring "--password" and "--username" options

Answer 2

You're using svn+ssh, so svn will ignore the --username parameter (since the SVN server will just use your login username).

Try svn relocate svn+ssh://<new-user>@repository.server.com/var/lib/svne2/edumate2/trunk/, then committing.