On 03.09.2014 21:45, Kim Gräsman wrote: > 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?
Yes, that's the whole point of doing this in the pre-commit hook. -- Brane
