This directory holds run-time configuration information for Subversion clients. The configuration files all share the same syntax, but you should examine a particular file to learn what configuration directives are valid for that file. The syntax is standard INI format: - Empty lines, and lines starting with '#', are ignored. The first significant line in a file must be a section header. - A section starts with a section header, which must start in the first column: [section-name] - An option, which must always appear within a section, is a pair (name, value). There are two valid forms for defining an option, both of which must start in the first column: name: value name = value Whitespace around the separator (:, =) is optional. - Section and option names are case-insensitive, but case is preserved. - An option's value may be broken into several lines. The value continuation lines must start with at least one whitespace. Trailing whitespace in the previous line, the newline character and the leading whitespace in the continuation line is compressed into a single space character. - All leading and trailing whitespace around a value is trimmed, but the whitespace within a value is preserved, with the exception of whitespace around line continuations, as described above. - When a value is a boolean, any of the following strings are recognised as truth values (case does not matter): true false yes no on off 1 0 - When a value is a list, it is comma-separated. Again, the whitespace around each element of the list is trimmed. - Option values may be expanded within a value by enclosing the option name in parentheses, preceded by a percent sign and followed by an 's': %(name)s The expansion is performed recursively and on demand, during svn_option_get. The name is first searched for in the same section, then in the special [DEFAULT] section. If the name is not found, the whole '%(name)s' placeholder is left unchanged. Any modifications to the configuration data invalidate all previously expanded values, so that the next svn_option_get will take the modifications into account. The syntax of the configuration files is a subset of the one used by Python's ConfigParser module; see http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-ConfigParser.html Configuration data in the Windows registry ========================================== On Windows, configuration data may also be stored in the registry. The functions svn_config_read and svn_config_merge will read from the registry when passed file names of the form: REGISTRY:/path/to/config-key The REGISTRY: prefix must be in upper case. The part must be one of: HKLM for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKCU for HKEY_CURRENT_USER The values in config-key represent the options in the [DEFAULT] section. The keys below config-key represent other sections, and their values represent the options. Only values of type REG_SZ whose name doesn't start with a '#' will be used; other values, as well as the keys' default values, will be ignored. File locations ============== Typically, Subversion uses two config directories, one for site-wide configuration, Unix: /etc/subversion/servers /etc/subversion/config /etc/subversion/hairstyles Windows: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Subversion\servers %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Subversion\config %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Subversion\hairstyles REGISTRY:HKLM\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Servers REGISTRY:HKLM\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config REGISTRY:HKLM\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Hairstyles and one for per-user configuration: Unix: ~/.subversion/servers ~/.subversion/config ~/.subversion/hairstyles Windows: %APPDATA%\Subversion\servers %APPDATA%\Subversion\config %APPDATA%\Subversion\hairstyles REGISTRY:HKCU\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Servers REGISTRY:HKCU\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config REGISTRY:HKCU\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Hairstyles