On 9/12/2016 7:12 AM, Tom Sorensen wrote:
Hello –
I am a self taught Subversion administrator. I hope I am posting to
the correct place. I am moving a subversion repository from Linux to
Windows.
I performed the dump command on the Linux machine and copied the
resulting repository. dump file to the windows machine. On the windows
machine I created an empty repository via a subversion Edge console. I
then performed the load command from a command line prompt. The
repository loaded but the ‘author’ on all folders have the same
person’s name assigned. For example jbrown is the author throughout
the entire repository. Some time ago I had a test repository and
performed the same as above and all of the resulting ‘authors’ were
correctly loaded.
I have reviewed the subversion website, but haven’t seen anything on
this. Can you help?
Are you asking about files within the repository directory tree on the
server, e.g. revision files? It is typical for them to be created by a
server process and thus be owned by the user ID for that process. I
host my repositories on Linux using the "http://"; access method, and all
files within the repository have the user ID "apache". The user IDs of
the committing developers are stored within the repository data
structures for each revision, so I can still determine who committed
each revision. If I loaded a dump file under Windows, I'd expect all
revisions to be created with my user ID, not "apache". (I don't have
multiple accounts on my Windows machines, so I can't test this.)
If you were using the "file://" method for repository access then I can
see how individual revisions would be owned by the committing
developers, but this is not the recommended method of hosting a
multi-user Subversion repository. If you were not using the "file://"
method, I'd tend to look at ownership of repository files by different
user IDs as a bug, or at best a quirk - not the expected or "only
correct" result.
If I misunderstood your question please list the files which have
surprising ownership.
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David Chapman dcchap...@acm.org
Chapman Consulting -- San Jose, CA
Software Development Done Right.
www.chapman-consulting-sj.com
