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Re: config file location

From: Listman <listman_at_burble.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:39:21 -0800

On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:48 AM- Feb 12, 2008, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:15, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> listman writes:
>>
>>> maybe not like that one.. i don't need the config
>>> information to live in the repos, just some place in the
>>> filesystem accessible to all with perhaps an environment
>>> variable that tells svn where to look?
>>>
>>> setenv SVN_CONFIG /tools/svn/config
>>>
>>> where config is the usual config file that lives in
>>> ~/.subversion/config
>>
>>
>> ln -s /tools/svn/config ~/.subversion/config
>>
>> seems like it would do the job. An environment variable would
>> admittedly be a little easier to set up, but either one can be
>> materialized via a systemwide login script.
>
> Or you could use a shell alias or function, mapping "svn" to "svn --
> config-dir /tools/svn/config".
>
> Or you could move "svn" to "svn.real" and write a new script "svn"
> which calls svn.real and adds the --config-dir argument:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> svn.real --config-dir /tools/svn/config "$@"
>

the only issue is that subversion places the "Auth" dir inside this
config dir. if we have our users point to one central location to get
the subversion file i guess we going to run into problems with the
Auth subdir?

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