This extension to Phabricator looks up user names in the svn aliases file, in order to map them to phabricator users.
This can be useful if you've already moved users over to a new authentication backend, and want to maintain links between users on both svn and phabricator.
NOTE: There is currently work underway to let users specify their own aliases in the Phabricator settings, see https://secure.phabricator.com/T12164 This extension may be obsoleted by that work.
To install this library, simply clone this repository alongside your phabricator installation:
cd /path/to/install
git clone https://github.com/make-all/libphalias.git
Then simply add the path to this library to your phabricator configuration:
cd /path/to/install/phabricator
./bin/config set load-libraries '["libphalias"]'
./bin/config set events.listeners '["DiffusionLookupUserAlias"]'
This extension could also be used to read other alias files, as long as they
have a similar format to the svn aliases file, which can be parsed by PHP's
parse_ini_file($filename) function. It should also be quite simple to
change the parser to handle other formats.