Re: Help running svn from ASP

On Mar 15, 2011, at 20:40, Justin Zaun wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>
>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 20:26, Justin Zaun wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to run svn from a process with my ASP script. When I run
>>> the program all I get is:
>>>
>>> svn: Can't determine the user's config path
>>>
>>> I dug around a little and it seams this is an issue as my web server
>>> is running as a service and not as a user so there is no user path. I
>>> read I should add a --config-path argument to the command, but that
>>> just gave me:
>>>
>>> svn.exe: invalid option: --config-path=C:\Development\webroot\bin\svn\
>>> Type 'svn help' for usage.
>>>
>>> So, how do I go about running SVN?
>>
>> Type "svn help" (or "svn.exe help" perhaps on Windows). It should show you that the argument is called --config-dir (not --config-path) and that it should be separated from the path by a space (not an equals sign).
>

> Thank you, this did the trick.
>
> "svn help" didnt list any options except for the svn commands, thats
> what started the whole google search.

Well, "svn help" should tell you to run "svn help <subcommand>" to learn more about the subcommand you're running. I then ran "svn help checkout" and among other things it showed:

  --config-dir ARG : read user configuration files from directory ARG
Received on 2011-03-16 02:45:36 CET