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Re: Using WinXP Environment Variables in Servers Config File

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:46:54 -0400

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a way to automatically map a drive letter to %APPDATA% when
> you log into Windows. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this.

Probably a subst command run from a batch file in your Startup group.

> However, I would think the TSVN team would want to preprocess paths,
> before passing them to the SVN libraries, to expand %APPDATA% (and
> maybe %HOMEPATH% and/or %USERPROFILE%, as well) as this is preferred
> place for applications running under Windows to save user specific
> settings, preferences, etc.

I think it's the SVN libraries themselves picking up the config files
and parsing them, not getting things passed to them after
pre-processing by TSVN.

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wenzel, Norbert wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm running my own certificate authority and want that CA to be
>>> recognized by TortoiseSVN. I edited the ssl-authority-files part of the
>>> configuration and added an absolute path, eg. C:\My Folder With
>>> Spaces\myCA.crt. Worked fine. So even the folder with spaces works without
>>> any quotation marks.
>>> Next I wanted to change the path to a user-specific directory, eg.
>>> %APPDATA%/Subversion/certs/myCA.crt. When doing a checkout from a server
>>> with a certificate signed by myCA I get an error message, that the
>>> configuration file is invalid. (Error: Invalid config: unable to load
>>> certificate file '%APPDATA%\Subversion\myCA.crt') I tried forward and
>>> backward slashes, removing slashes after the % and quotation marks.
>>> Is there any possibility to use a windows environment variable in that
>>> path?
>>
>> I don't think that's possible. The config files are handled by the
>> Subversion library, and that code does not expand env variables. You'd have
>> to ask on the Subversion mailing list for that feature.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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