Allow ANY username to commit into SVN

Question

To migrate from our old VCS, I want to permanently enable to commit into our repository with ANY username and no password prompted. My script runs something like:

svn --username ANYNAME commit -m "testmsg" C:\path\to\file.txt

I need the server to accept any name that i enter for ANYNAME and it must not ask for a password, so that my script can keep committing. Is that possible?

I use VisualSVN and my server runs on Http, not Https.

Please Help,

Thank you!

Answer 1

I solved my problem by editing the properties afterwards, so instead of committing with a fake username, which I can't make my server do, I do this :

svn propset --revprop -r HEAD svn:author NEW_AUTHOR_NAME

To make this work, you have to enable the "pre-revprop-change-hook" (example here)

BEcause somebody asked - My task is to migrate the complete history of our Code , which was until now managed by a very outdated version control system (QVCS), to Subversion. TO do this, i had to edit every user, because some of them aren't working here anymore and so i have to make my system to believe me ;)

Normally i wouldn't do this or even allow our server to accept such property changes, since editing and entering just any author-name is not the way to go.

Answer 2

That will depend on how your svn server authentication is setup. If you want to bypass authentication then you need to setup server accordingly, but its a very bad idea. How will you know who checked in the code?

Another approach can be, you can use a generic user for all svn work then you can hard-code username/password in a script.