SVN change username

Question

I found a lot of examples on how to change the username for specific revisions and so on.

But what I need is this: I did a checkout with the authentication credentia

Answer 1

I’ve had the exact same problem and found the solution in Where does SVN client store user authentication data?:

1. cd to ~/.subversion/auth/.
2. Do fgrep -l */*.
3. Delete the file found.
4. The next operation on the repository will ask you again for username/password information.

(For Windows, the steps are analogous; the auth directory is in %APPDATA%\Subversion\).

Note that this will only work for SVN access schemes where the user name is part of the server login so it’s no use for repositories accessed using file://.