Yes I did, and this is my deduction also. The user names won't make it to the pre-commit unless they're required to authenticate by svnserve first.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Dominik Psenner <dpsen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I tried this, but an author is not passed unless auth-access is in use >>AFAICT. So $USER in your example is always empty. > > This would mean that you would never see any usernames in commits. Did you > try to commit using the --username parameter? > >