On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:54:27PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > 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.
I don't think there is an official way to prevent the config dir from being created. I'd be interested to know why you need this. What is your use case? Stefan
