Hi Brane, On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > On 03.09.2014 21:21, Kim Gräsman wrote: >> >> Is there some way to convince Subversion to commit on a user's behalf? >> We'd like to designate one SVN account as the commit bot account and >> let it impersonate users at will. > > You could try the following trick: on the build machine, with the bot's > credentials, do this: > > $ svn commit -m ... --with-revprop on-behalf-of=username > > then on the server, add a pre-commit hook script that looks at the > revision properties of the transaction (svnlook propget --revprop) > that's about to be committed; and if svn:author is the bot, and the > on-behalf-of property exists, the script would replace the svn:author > value and delete the on-behalf-of property (svnadmin setrevprop). > > This is just a blue-sky idea, I've never actually done that; but I don't > see a reason, offhand, why it wouldn't work.
Nice idea, sounds promising! And as for atomicity, this all happens before the commit transaction hits the actual repo, right? Thanks, - Kim
