Thank you Ed and Ryan. You provided me some ideas around this topic. I
appreciated it.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Ed <SVN_at_0x1b.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Phil <cwstorm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure if this is even possible but subversion place the ".subversion"
> > directory based on your unix environment variable called $HOME. Well, on
> > one server, we have specifically specify $HOME to a location that could
> be
> > deleted in the future. If that's the case, then there goes the
> > ".subversion" information. So, can the ".subversion" directory be
> backed up
> > and manually move it somewhere else? I'm assuming not since the
> subversion
> > program is relying on the $HOME variable. If that directory every got
> lost,
> > what's the best approach on recovering it so that subversion can still
> > function as normal. Thanks for your inputs.
> >
> > -Phillip
>
>
> Keep your .subversion in a safe place and make $HOME/.subversion a
> link to it (ln -s) - if $HOME goes away you only loose the link. This
> will save your settings, but more importantly your credentials to any
> repos you access (proxy settings too).
>
> add this link to the other ones you will need (like .ssh) when you
> rebuild your $HOME - on your workstation. There is also a system wide
> config file in /etc, but it would apply to all users of the system.
>
Received on 2012-01-05 21:37:51 CET