Re: Overriding /etc/subversion/config with svn's builtins

Blair Zajac wrote:
> If somebody uncomments an option in /etc/subversion/config, say
> diff-cmd, to a program you don't like, say xxdiff, and you'd rather use
> the svn's builtin diff and can't change /etc/subversion/config, there
> doesn't appear to be a way to do this in your ~/.subversion/config. It
> would be nice if you could say something like
>
> [helpers]
> diff-cmd = svn_builtin
>
> and it would effectively unset the diff-cmd pointer.
>
> Currently, the work around is to set it to /usr/bin/diff, but these
> seems like a waste (although a small one).
>
> Is something people would be interested in having implemented?

Yes, that seems like an ability that we ought to have.

> One question is, what would be a good name that you could use that would
> "unset" the value?

The empty string.

- Julian

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Received on Wed Aug 31 14:56:53 2005