Re: --no-config-dir option?

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:54:27PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent svn from creating a $HOME/.subversion
> directory? I know how to make it put the directory in a different
> location using --config-dir=/wherever, but I want to avoid creating
> it entirely. I can't find an option like "--no-config-dir" or
> "--config-dir=none".
>
> I have discovered an ugly workaround: If I set
> --configdir=/nonexistent/nonexistent (giving the name of a directory
> that does not exist, and whose parent also does not exist), then the
> absence of the parent directory means that svn will be unable to create
> the child directory.

I don't think there is an official way to prevent the config dir from being
created. I'd be interested to know why you need this. What is your use case?

Stefan
Received on 2010-12-23 16:01:08 CET