How do I change the default author for accessing a local SVN repository?

Question

I use TortoiseSVN to access file based local repo. In all my commits an author is my Windows login name. Is it possible to use different name?

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Answer 1

As far as I know, TortoiseSVN does not offer any way to do this.

Presumably it's not seen as a big issue, since file based access is not practical for multi-user scenarios, and for single-user the author-name is of lesser importance.

A possible workaround would be to create another Windows username with the author name you want and connect with this.