On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:15, Listman wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:39 AM- Feb 13, 2008, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 18:39, Listman wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> That could be a concern. Strike my recommendation and go with Paul's.
>
> pauls suggestion will mean all users create their Auth dirs in the
> site location, which isn't what we want at all..
No, Paul's suggestion is that users have their .subversion
directories in their home directories, as usual, with all their usual
contents, except that they delete the "config" file and instead
create a symlink to a centrally-located config file. ln -s /tools/svn/
config ~/.subversion/config
> rather than having a --config-dir setting i think we need a --
> config-file setting which determines the location of the
> ~/.subversion/config file specifically, not the location of the
> entire directory.
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