Has anyone run into problems in TortoiseSVN where the 'author' isn't written to the log?

Question

I have someone connecting to my repository using the url (substituted the IP address): svn+ssh://craig@123.45.67.89/subversion

Yet when they commit files, the author entry is "null".

According to this article: http://tortoisesvn.net/node/80 it should be working fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Check your server configuration in [repository]/conf/svnserve.conf file if it has set

anon-acces=write
auth-access=write

Usually, with the default settings

anon-access = read
auth-access = write

(you can just comment out the lines), the author information should be preserved.