On Mar 15, 2011, at 20:40, Justin Zaun wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 20:26, Justin Zaun wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to run svn from a process with my ASP script. When I run
>>> the program all I get is:
>>> 
>>> svn: Can't determine the user's config path
>>> 
>>> I dug around a little and it seams this is an issue as my web server
>>> is running as a service and not as a user so there is no user path. I
>>> read I should add a --config-path argument to the command, but that
>>> just gave me:
>>> 
>>> svn.exe: invalid option: --config-path=C:\Development\webroot\bin\svn\
>>> Type 'svn help' for usage.
>>> 
>>> So, how do I go about running SVN?
>> 
>> Type "svn help" (or "svn.exe help" perhaps on Windows). It should show you 
>> that the argument is called --config-dir (not --config-path) and that it 
>> should be separated from the path by a space (not an equals sign).
> 

> Thank you, this did the trick.
> 
> "svn help" didnt list any options except for the svn commands, thats
> what started the whole google search.

Well, "svn help" should tell you to run "svn help <subcommand>" to learn more 
about the subcommand you're running. I then ran "svn help checkout" and among 
other things it showed:

  --config-dir ARG         : read user configuration files from directory ARG


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