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?

I know how to change a

Answer 1

I suggest setting a post-commit-hook (in your repo's hooks folder - just copy the post-commit-hook.tmpl to post-commit-hook.bat and empty it [1]

svn propset svn:author --revprop -r HEAD file:/// [2]

[1] provided SlikSvn or similar is installed, i.e. commandline svn access is possible)

[2] (or .sh if on linux, with the #!/bin/bash preamble) with the same content