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?

Answer 1

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.