SVN change username

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?

Solution 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.

Solution 2:

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?

Solution 3:

I’ve had the exact same problem and found the solution in Where does SVN client store user authentication data?:

1. cd to ~/.subversion/auth/.
2. Do fgrep -l <yourworkmatesusernameORtheserverurl> */*.
3. Delete the file found.
4. 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://.

Solution 4:

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.

Solution 5:

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.