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Re: Default Config Files

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:46:48 +0300

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:05:53 -0400:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Ryan Schmidt
> <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> >
> > On May 11, 2011, at 01:48, Ben Simpson wrote:
> >
> >> I am running the current version of SVN on a CentOS 5.5 server, and am looking for the the default user config file location.
> >>
> >> What I am trying to do is set the default ~/.subversion/servers file to automatically not store passwords, but want to be able to set it once, and when new users access SVN (from this machine) they get the file that is already modified. I cant seem to find where it gets this file from originally.
> >>
> >> If this doesn't make any sense, let me know, and I will try and explain it better..
> >
> > There is no central server-side settings storage system. There is however the /etc/subversion directory (on the client machine) whose contents would be used as defaults on that client.
> >
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html
>
> First, upgrade to the CentOS 5.6 version of subversion, for both
> clients and servers. *NOW*. That gets you Subversion 1.6.x, which at
> least *ASKS* before storing those passwords in cleartext. It's a very
> large improvement in flexibility and performance. Note that once you
> touch a working copy with Subversion 1.6.x, it will auto-upgrade and
> you cannot gracefully roll it back to the Subversion 1.4.2 on CentOS
> 5.5, so be ready to update all your hosts.
>

change-svn-wc-format.py
Received on 2011-05-11 14:47:30 CEST

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