SVN change username

authentication svn credentials
axel freudiger picture axel freudiger · Oct 6, 2011 · Viewed 158.6k times · Source

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

Ingo Kegel picture Ingo Kegel · Oct 6, 2011

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.

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