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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Ray Johnson <Ra...@ingenio.com> on 2004/04/14 01:05:45 UTC
System-wide config file for Windows
Ok - this is perhaps a dumb question but i can't for he life of me
figure it out and the docs are not really helping me out.
I want to set the global-ignores file to know about additional files to
ignore. We do *not* want to use the Windows registry. Much easier for
our Ops guys to back up and edit a file then poking around in the
registry. Shouldn't be a problem as the docs state you can use an INI
file to set this stuff up. But where the heck is the location of that
file?
The book simply states this:
"...on Windows machines, it again looks for a Subversion directory
inside the common Application Data location (again, as specified by the
Windows Registry). Unlike the per-user case, the svn program does not
attempt to create the system-wide configuration area."
What the heck is the "common Application Data location"? Since svn
apparently doesn't attempt to create the system-wide configuration area
am I supposed to keep guessing until I find it? I'm sure I must be
missing some clearer documentation somewhere. Can anyone help point me
in the right direction?
BTW, while pounding my head on this I have some other questions
thoughts:
1) Why isn't the config in an XML format? Even MS is (slowly) moving
away from the crappy registry and .INI world...
2) Can you not have a repository level config? For example, I may have
Linux code in one repository and Windows code in another. I would like
to set things like the editor-cmd differently based on repository.
However, it seems like I must do it for all repositories or have each
user set things up in user configs.
3) Can you override the diff-cmd somehow at the command line level? (I
didn't see a way to.) Most of our users want to use a visual diff tool.
However, we have some scripts in our build environment that obviously
can't use a GUI tool. If I could add an extra argument in my automated
scripts that would work...
Re: System-wide config file for Windows
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Ray Johnson wrote:
>
> Ok - this is perhaps a dumb question but i can't for he life of me
> figure it out and the docs are not really helping me out.
>
> I want to set the global-ignores file to know about additional files
> to ignore. We do *not* want to use the Windows registry. Much easier
> for our Ops guys to back up and edit a file then poking around in the
> registry. Shouldn't be a problem as the docs state you can use an INI
> file to set this stuff up. But where the heck is the location of that
> file?
>
> The book simply states this:
> "...on Windows machines, it again looks for a Subversion directory
> inside the common Application Data location (again, as specified by
> the Windows Registry). Unlike the per-user case, the *svn* program
> does not attempt to create the system-wide configuration area."
>
> What the heck is the "common Application Data location"? Since svn
> apparently doesn't attempt to create the system-wide configuration
> area am I supposed to keep guessing until I find it? I'm sure I must
> be missing some clearer documentation somewhere. Can anyone help
> point me in the right direction?
Have you read your %APPDATA%\Subversion\README.txt file? All the file
locations are described there.
> BTW, while pounding my head on this I have some other questions thoughts:
> 1) Why isn't the config in an XML format? Even MS is (slowly) moving
> away from the crappy registry and .INI world...
Because there are some things XML is not appropriate for, e.g.,
modification with a text editor. We do not need more than two levels of
hierarchy anyway.
> 2) Can you not have a repository level config? For example, I may
> have Linux code in one repository and Windows code in another. I
> would like to set things like the editor-cmd differently based on
> repository. However, it seems like I must do it for all repositories
> or have each user set things up in user configs.
There is no repository-level configuration as yet, although it's in the
pipeiline. I'd like to point out though that "editor-cmd" is the sort of
setting you _don't_ want to configure per-repository, because it depends
on client machine configuration.
Unless of course you're a bank and can force each and every client PC to
be configured identically.
> 3) Can you override the diff-cmd somehow at the command line level?
> (I didn't see a way to.) Most of our users want to use a visual diff
> tool. However, we have some scripts in our build environment that
> obviously can't use a GUI tool. If I could add an extra argument in
> my automated scripts that would work...
Yes, there is a --diff-cmd and a --diff3-cmd command line option.
There's also --config-dir that you can use to change the directory from
which the config files are read for the current command.
There's also "svn help" which tells you all that, not to mention the
Subversion Book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. :-)
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Re: System-wide config file for Windows
Posted by Steve Williams <st...@kromestudios.com>.
That path I gave is my own account path. The common path will be "All
Users" instead of "williams".
Sly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Williams" <st...@kromestudios.com>
To: "Ray Johnson" <Ra...@ingenio.com>; <us...@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: System-wide config file for Windows
> On my W2K system it is C:\Documents and Settings\williams\Application
> Data\Subversion
>
> On W2K and XP, the "Documents and Settings" is a system folder in the
system
> partition. Under this folder is a sub-folder for each user account on the
> machine.
>
> What would XML give you in this case that INI cannot? Using XML would be
> overkill for such a simple file.
>
> Sly
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Re: System-wide config file for Windows
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
>Steve Williams said:
>
>
>>On my W2K system it is C:\Documents and Settings\williams\Application
>>Data\Subversion
>>
>>On W2K and XP, the "Documents and Settings" is a system folder in the
>>system partition. Under this folder is a sub-folder for each user
>>account on the machine.
>>
>>What would XML give you in this case that INI cannot? Using XML would
>>be overkill for such a simple file.
>>
>>
>>
>"Becuase XML makes it better!" (tm)
>Didn't you know that if you change your ini to xml the marketing fairy
>will leave a quarter under your pillow and add another item to the bullet
>list for your glossy brochure.<g>
>
>
Right. Good jub SVN is an open source project, otherwise our config
files would be in XML, users would edit them, and wed get about 100
reports a day about "XML parsing error when I try to run any Subversion
command".
Thanks but no thanks.
-- Brane
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Re: System-wide config file for Windows
Posted by Jeff Hinrichs <je...@delasco.com>.
Steve Williams said:
> On my W2K system it is C:\Documents and Settings\williams\Application
> Data\Subversion
>
> On W2K and XP, the "Documents and Settings" is a system folder in the
> system partition. Under this folder is a sub-folder for each user
> account on the machine.
>
> What would XML give you in this case that INI cannot? Using XML would
> be overkill for such a simple file.
>
"Becuase XML makes it better!" (tm)
Didn't you know that if you change your ini to xml the marketing fairy
will leave a quarter under your pillow and add another item to the bullet
list for your glossy brochure.<g>
-Jeff
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Re: System-wide config file for Windows
Posted by Steve Williams <st...@kromestudios.com>.
On my W2K system it is C:\Documents and Settings\williams\Application
Data\Subversion
On W2K and XP, the "Documents and Settings" is a system folder in the system
partition. Under this folder is a sub-folder for each user account on the
machine.
What would XML give you in this case that INI cannot? Using XML would be
overkill for such a simple file.
Sly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Johnson" <Ra...@ingenio.com>
To: <us...@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: System-wide config file for Windows
Ok - this is perhaps a dumb question but i can't for he life of me
figure it out and the docs are not really helping me out.
I want to set the global-ignores file to know about additional files to
ignore. We do *not* want to use the Windows registry. Much easier for
our Ops guys to back up and edit a file then poking around in the
registry. Shouldn't be a problem as the docs state you can use an INI
file to set this stuff up. But where the heck is the location of that
file?
The book simply states this:
"...on Windows machines, it again looks for a Subversion directory
inside the common Application Data location (again, as specified by the
Windows Registry). Unlike the per-user case, the svn program does not
attempt to create the system-wide configuration area."
What the heck is the "common Application Data location"? Since svn
apparently doesn't attempt to create the system-wide configuration area
am I supposed to keep guessing until I find it? I'm sure I must be
missing some clearer documentation somewhere. Can anyone help point me
in the right direction?
BTW, while pounding my head on this I have some other questions
thoughts:
1) Why isn't the config in an XML format? Even MS is (slowly) moving
away from the crappy registry and .INI world...
2) Can you not have a repository level config? For example, I may have
Linux code in one repository and Windows code in another. I would like
to set things like the editor-cmd differently based on repository.
However, it seems like I must do it for all repositories or have each
user set things up in user configs.
3) Can you override the diff-cmd somehow at the command line level? (I
didn't see a way to.) Most of our users want to use a visual diff tool.
However, we have some scripts in our build environment that obviously
can't use a GUI tool. If I could add an extra argument in my automated
scripts that would work...
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