SVN checkin as different users on Windows

Question

I would like to have the option to select what user that I'll do my checkin as, when checking in from Windows.

When using TortoiseSVN it seems like the authentication information is stored per repository and it can't be changed.

What would be a good way to make it easily possible to checkin as different users using SVN in Windows?

Answer 1

You can clear the stored user id information from the settings page - then it will ask you again. Just remember not to click the "Don't ask again" tickbox when you commit.

Answer 2

You can open an explorer window using the credentials of another user, using this:

runas /user:domain\\username "explorer /separate"

After that you can check-in authenticating other SVN user.

Answer 3

Another alternative:

You can delete the authentication data from the Run-Time Configuration Area: ~/.subversion/auth/ on Unix-like systems or %APPDATA%/Subversion/auth/ on Windows. This is all that TortoiseSVN is doing when you click Settings/Stored Data/Authentication Data.

Yet another alternative:

You can use the --no-auth-cache switch (via the svn.exe command-line client) to specify that you want to be prompted for new credentials on just this one command.

Yet another alternative:

You can edit the config file in the Run-Time Configuration area and set the store-auth-creds option to no . This will prevent the storing of credentials used in any Subversion interactions you perform on the computer. Therefore, you can manually enter new and different credentials on every operation.