Svn get current user

Question

How to get current user that is using svn on particular workstation?

can I use svn.exe executable with some switch to get that info.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Edit: Note this answer only applies to SVN versions before 1.9. If you using SVN version >1.9, then try the svn auth approach described in @bahrep's answer

This is a bash script that I use, which I put in my ~/bin/ folder and called svn_whoami.sh:

#!/bin/bash

debug=false

for ((i=1;i<=$#;i++)) do
    case ${!i} in

        -h|--help)
            programName=$( basename ${0} )
            echo "Usage:"
            echo "    ${programName} [-h|--help] [-d|--debug]"
            echo
            echo "Example:"
            echo "    ${programName} --debug"
            exit 0;
            ;;
        -d|--debug)
            debug=true;
            ;;

    esac;
done;

if [ "${debug}" == "true" ]; then
    echo "cat ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/* | grep -A6 username --color";
fi;

cat ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/* | grep -A6 svn:realmstring

Output:

$ svn_whoami.sh -d
cat ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/* | grep -A6 username --color
svn:realmstring
V 53
 Authorization Realm
K 8
username
V 5
yourUserName
--
svn:realmstring
V 45
 Authorization Realm
K 8
username
V 5
yourUserName