RE: Changing the svn:author in a subversion dumpfile

[Leon Oosterwijk <le...@daveramsey.com>]

All,  

> -----Original Message-----
> Yes, it does.  It's stored as part of a serialized hash 
> table, which includes the length as part of the value.  
> Personally, when I need to rename authors in a dumpfile I 
> used a slightly hacked version of svndumptool.py, it didn't 
> take too much effort to teach it how to swap authors.
> 
> -garrett

I didn't know about svndumptool.py. It looks very useful. Would you
consider sharing the changes you made to swap authors? 

> Regardless, were you aware that you can change the author 
> once the repository is loaded?
> 
> svn propset -R n svn:author leon url://server/repos
> 
 
I thought about doing it this way, but wasn't sure of a good way to get
all the revisions made by one author. I suppose I could loop over all
revisions and check the author. If it is one I need to change, then
issue the propset. 

Thanks,

Leon

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Re: Changing the svn:author in a subversion dumpfile

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 9/1/06, Leon Oosterwijk <le...@daveramsey.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Yes, it does.  It's stored as part of a serialized hash
> > table, which includes the length as part of the value.
> > Personally, when I need to rename authors in a dumpfile I
> > used a slightly hacked version of svndumptool.py, it didn't
> > take too much effort to teach it how to swap authors.
> >
> > -garrett
>
> I didn't know about svndumptool.py. It looks very useful. Would you
> consider sharing the changes you made to swap authors?

Sure thing.  It's attached to this email.  The diff is against
svndumptool.py's svn trunk, I'm not sure if it'll apply cleanly or
not, but it should give you a good idea to start from.  The main
reason I haven't sent it to the author is I haven't come up with a
good UI, I just tweak the dictionary in tools.py whenever I need to do
it again.

-garrett