On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:49, Phil wrote: > Not sure if this is even possible but subversion place the ".subversion" > directory based on your unix environment variable called $HOME. Well, on one > server, we have specifically specify $HOME to a location that could be > deleted in the future. If that's the case, then there goes the ".subversion" > information. So, can the ".subversion" directory be backed up and manually > move it somewhere else? I'm assuming not since the subversion program is > relying on the $HOME variable. If that directory every got lost, what's the > best approach on recovering it so that subversion can still function as > normal. Thanks for your inputs.
The .subversion folder only contains your settings. If it's missing, Subversion will create a new one from its defaults. You can specify an alternate location for this directory by using the --config-dir argument. You'd have to specify it every time you run the svn command.
