Is there a way to prevent svn from creating a $HOME/.subversion directory? I know how to make it put the directory in a different location using --config-dir=/wherever, but I want to avoid creating it entirely. I can't find an option like "--no-config-dir" or "--config-dir=none".
I have discovered an ugly workaround: If I set --configdir=/nonexistent/nonexistent (giving the name of a directory that does not exist, and whose parent also does not exist), then the absence of the parent directory means that svn will be unable to create the child directory. --apb (Alan Barrett)