Re: [BIKESHED] "anonymous" username usage in mod_dav_svn.

[Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net>]

cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> I would like to change mod_dav_svn's dav_svn_get_resource() to stop
> manufacturing a username of "anonymous" when no authenticated username
> exists, and to use the empty string instead.  My reasons:
> 
>   - Subversion is perfectly happy not having an svn:author property
>     on each revision.
>   - ra_local and ra_svn do not manufacture such names (and never have).
>   - 'svnadmin create' does not manufacture this name.
>   - The absence of a username stands out more strongly in an 'svn st
>     -v' or 'svn ls -v' listing than just another string.
>   - It unnecessary swallows a commonly used word that *could* actually
>     be used as a real username.
> 
> Any objections?

+1

Share Greg Hudson's caveat that null (i.e., an absent property) would
be a better representation of this situation, and that we should
adjust any code that needs to be adjusted for that.

-Karl

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