Overriding some settings in the registry

[Jean-Yves Avenard <jy...@gmail.com>]

Hi there...

I was trying to configure a custom installation, where the server file
would be automatically set for my configuration.

Unfortunately, this is done statically in the source code in config_file.c ..

There is a comment there that caught my attention:

 "Configuration data in the Windows registry"                              NL
   "=========================================="                              NL
   ""                                                                        NL
   "On Windows, configuration data may also be stored in the registry. The"  NL
   "functions svn_config_read and svn_config_merge will read from the"       NL
   "registry when passed file names of the form:"                            NL
   ""                                                                        NL
   "   REGISTRY:<hive>/path/to/config-key"                                   NL
   ""                                                                        NL
   "The REGISTRY: prefix must be in upper case. The <hive> part must be"     NL
   "one of:"                                                                 NL
   ""                                                                        NL
   "   HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"                                          NL
   "   HKCU for HKEY_CURRENT_USER"                                           NL
   ""                                                                        NL
   "The values in config-key represent the options in the [DEFAULT] section."NL
   "The keys below config-key represent other sections, and their values"    NL
   "represent the options. Only values of type REG_SZ whose name doesn't"    NL
   "start with a '#' will be used; other values, as well as the keys'"       NL
   "default values, will be ignored."                                        NL
   ""

And in particular:
"    REGISTRY:HKLM\\Software\\Tigris.org\\Subversion\\Servers"            NL

Other that I doubt those comments are up to date (subversion doesn't
create such registry key on windows) ; is it possible to override the
value of the "servers" content with some registry keys?

If I understand properly the comments, I would need something like:

REGISTRY:HKLM\\Software\\Tigris.org\\Subversion\\Servers\\groups:
groupname = *.domain.com
REGISTRY:HKLM\\Software\\Tigris.org\\Subversion\\Servers\\groupname:
groupname = "http-timeout = 60\nhttp-auth-types = negotiate"

Am I reading this correctly?

If not, how do I set the servers file through the registry (if
possible of course)

Thank you
Jean-Yves