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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:52:08 +0200
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
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Subject: format of svn:author
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012, Mark Mielke wrote:
>> Another idea is to change the revprop's value in the pre-commit 
>> or post-commit hook: [...]
>
> This is what we've been doing for about two years. It has 
> the consequence that tools don't automatically match unique 
> identifier to commit as they no longer match.

If your third party tools can't extract the unique ID from 
svn:author = "Display Name <uniqueid@domain>" then perhaps the 
problem lies at least as much in your third party tools as in 
subversion.

--apb (Alan Barrett)