Re: svnserver tunnelling and -r option

Michael L Brown wrote:
>
> If one starts svnserver via "svn+ssh", or "svn+rsh", how does one get the
> -r (--root) option set? If started as a daemon, then it is easy, but not
> so obvious when started by a tunnel.
>
> We need to do it as a server wide configuration, i.e., a file that
> svnserver looks at when it starts to see of a root path has been defined.
> We prefer that it not be in the user's .subversion configuration file.
> Will svnserve look in the same /etc/subversion directory for configuration
> info just like svn does?

Try this:

Rename svnserve to svnserve2.
Create a schell script named svnserve that calls svnserve2, sends any
extra options you need, and passes along the options from the svn+ssh call.

I did not test this, but I think I've done something like this before.

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