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SVK::Help::Environment(3)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           SVK::Help::Environment(3)



NAME
       SVK::Help::Environment - A list of svk's environment variables

DESCRIPTION
       A number of system environment variables influence how svk runs. Below is a complete list of
       variables you can use to alter svk's behavior.

       All Platforms


       $SVKROOT
           Unless you tell it otherwise, svk stores your configuration and repository in $HOME/.svk.  If you
           set SVKROOT to a path on disk, svk will look there instead of in $HOME/.svk.

       $SVN_EDITOR / $EDITOR
           Sometimes, svk needs to pop up a text editor. svk first tries to launch the editor specified in
           $SVN_EDITOR and falls back to $EDITOR if that's not defined.

       $SVKDIFF
           If you'd prefer to use an external "diff" tool instead of svk's builtin diff library, set this
           variable to your tool's name or path.

       $SVKMERGE
           svk lets you resolve conflicts, interactively, with a text editor or use an external diff tool.
           Out of the box, svk comes with support for the following merge tools:

            AraxisMerge
            Emacs
            FileMerge
            GtkDiff
            Guiffy
            GVim
            KDiff3
            Meld
            P4WinMerge
            TkDiff
            TortoiseMerge
            Vim
            XXDiff

           If you want svk to spawn a specific merge tool, set this variable to the tool's name.

       $SVKLOGLEVEL
           The lowest log level that svk will present to the user. The log levels are: DEBUG, INFO, WARN,
           ERROR and FATAL. The default log level is INFO; this includes progress messages for long-running
           commands (such as sync). For non-interactive use (such as for cron jobs) it might be useful to
           set $SVKLOGLEVEL to WARN.

       $SVKRESOLVE
           If you set this variable, svk's interactive resolver will always perform the command it's set to.
           For more details about the commands available in svk's interactive resolver, type "perldoc
           SVK::Resolve".

       $SVKMIME
           Indicates which module is used for automatically detecting the MIME types of files.
           Implementations included with core SVK are: "File::LibMagic", "File::MMagic", "File::Type" and
           "Internal".  The value "Internal" means to use SVK's own internal MIME detection algorithm which
           requires no external modules.  This poor, but fast algorithm simply assigns
           "application/octet-stream" to anything that looks binary.  If $SVKMIME has no value, "Internal"
           is used.

       $SVKPAGER
           When svk needs to pipe long output through a pager, it uses $SVKPAGER to send the output to your
           display.  If this variable is not set or set to something that's not executable, the output will
           not be paged.  svk ignores your $PAGER setting, so you must explicitly set $SVKPAGER if you want
           paging.

       $SVKLOGOUTPUT
           By specifying this variable, you change the default output filter used by the "svk log" command.
           The value of this variable can be anything that you can pass to "svk log"'s "--output" option.

       $SVKPGP
           svk supports signing and verifying changesets using the Gnu Privacy Guard.  By default, svk tries
           to run the first program called gpg in your path. To tell svk to use a specific gpg executable,
           set this variable to the executable's name or path.

       $SVNFSTYPE
           By default, svk creates its local repository as a fsfs repository when running on Subversion 1.1
           and newer. On Subversion 1.0, SVK defaults to bdb.  To explicitly specify a repository type, set
           this variable to fsfs or bdb.

       $SVKNORAREPLAY
           By default, svk tries to make use of the replay api provided by Subversion if available.  You can
           turn this environment variable on to tell svk not to do so.  svk will then use the old
           "SVN::Mirror" module to do mirroring.

       $SVKSVNBACKTRACE
           (For debugging use only.) If this environment variable is set to a true value, any error message
           which comes from the Subversion libraries will be accompanied by a stack backtrace.

       Win32

       These variables only apply to svk on Windows.

       $ProgramFiles
           Set this variable to the directory you install programs into. It defaults to 'C:\Program Files'.



perl v5.8.8                                      2007-03-26                        SVK::Help::Environment(3)