On 13.09.2012 14:03, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > - While your approach was the super simple one to take, how do we feel > about the fact that this would cause all programs which linked against > Subversion's libs to start noticing those environment variables which > are really kind meant to be specific to just the command-line clients. > In the past, I (and others) have gone on record against such things. > Perhaps a better approach would be for 'svn' -- or one of the common > svn_cmdline_* functions in libsvn_subr -- to parse the env variables > and use the results to override the parsed runtime configuration > values in the svn_config_t structures that get passed all over the > place. I dunno.
I'd argue the other way, that in this case, the settings in the config file should override those gleaned from the environment. Agree on environment parsing being cmdline-specific. -- Brane -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
