SVK::Help::Environment 1.08

SVK::Help::Environment is a list of svks environment variables.

A number of system environment variables influence how svk runs. Below is a complete list of variables you can use to alter svks 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 thats not defined.

$SVKDIFF

If youd prefer to use an external "diff" tool instead of svks builtin diff library, set this variable to your tools 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 tools name.

$SVKRESOLVE

If you set this variable, svks interactive resolver will always perform the command its set to. For more details about the commands available in svks interactive resolver, type perldoc SVK::Resolve.

$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 thats not executable, the output will not be paged. svk ignores your $PAGER setting, so you must explicitly set $SVKPAGER if you want paging.

$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 executables 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.

$SVKNOSVM

To be able to talk to a remote Subversion server, svk needs the SVN::Mirror perl package installed. If you have SVN::Mirror installed, but want svk to operate as if you didnt, set $SVKNOSVM to a true value.