Alan Barrett wrote on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 17:34:09 +0200:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The event that made me notice the problem was cron job owned by root,
> whose command was something like "su serviceuser -c 'svn update
> /path/to/dir'". Think of updating a working copy that contains the
And if you undefine $HOME?
sudo -u serviceuser env -u HOME svn update /path/to/dir
> files used by a web server. The svn update command runs in a context
> where $HOME is root's home directory, and serviceuser is not even
> allowed to write there, and might not even be allowed to read, so I got
> an error or warning (I forget which, and the details change according to
> the permissions).
>
> You ask why I need to avoid creating a .subversion directory, and I
> suppose that I don't absolutely need to avoid creating it, but I also
> don't need *to* create it (it won't contain any useful information), and
> I don't want the clutter.
>
> Another annoying issue is that commands that one would expect to be
> read-only (such as "svn status" or "svn info") also create the config
> directory.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
Received on 2010-12-23 17:22:10 CET