[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: overriding .subversion/config[helpers] on the command line

From: Perry Hutchison <perryh_at_pluto.rain.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:00:04 -0700

Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:27:46AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:53:16AM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> > > ...
> > > It appears that I can override the diff3-cmd setting by adding
> > > --diff3-cmd=/bin/false to the command, but when I try to do the
> > > same thing to merge-tool-cmd (by adding --merge-tool-cmd=/bin/false)
> > > I get an error message:
> > >
> > > svn: invalid option: --merge-tool-cmd=/bin/false
> > >
> > > How do I go about overriding the merge-tool-cmd setting on the svn
> > > command line?
> > >
> > > svn version 1.6.17 (r1128011) on Ubuntu 12.04, in case it matters.
> > >
> > > Please Cc.
> >
> > Try --config-option:config:global:merge-tool-cmd=/bin/false
>
> Sorry, got the section name wrong:
> --config-option:config:helpers:merge-tool-cmd=/bin/false

I wonder if that option may be new in 1.7 -- it doesn't seem to be
recognized in 1.6.17:

 svn: invalid option: --config-option:config:helpers:merge-tool-cmd=/bin/false
Received on 2014-10-14 05:15:53 CEST

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.