>There is no equivalent of CVSROOT in Subversion. But when it has been asked >for before, the response has been: what do you need it for? If you just want a >shortcut for checking out, define an environment variable and use that. This >is what I do in my ~/.bashrc: > >export M="http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports"; > >Then I can for example: > >svn checkout $M/trunk/dports > >or > >svn log $M --limit 5 > >I use the variable "M" because it's easy to remember that it stands for >MacPorts and I'm not using it for anything else, but you can name it anything >you want, or define multiple env vars for multiple repositories or multiple >paths within a repository (for example, >a separate variable for the trunk, or >for a deep path within the repo that you often want to refer to). > >Remember, the working copy stores the repository URL it was checked out from, >so the only time you need the repository URL is when you're checking out or >when you're asking for a log or similar function and aren't already sitting in >the working copy's directory.
Thanks for the reply Ryan. I was thinking about doing something like this but I wanted to confirm the need of SVNROOT first. Regards, Mark
