This specifies a comma-separated list of patterns for repository hostnames that should accessed directly, without using the proxy machine. The pattern syntax is the same as is used in the Unix shell for filenames. A repository hostname matching any of these patterns will not be proxied.

This specifies the hostname of the proxy computer through which your HTTP-based Subversion requests must pass. It defaults to an empty value, which means that Subversion will not attempt to route HTTP requests through a proxy computer, and will instead attempt to contact the destination machine directly.

This specifies the port number on the proxy host to use. It defaults to an empty value.

This specifies the username to supply to the proxy machine. It defaults to an empty value.

This specifies the password to supply to the proxy machine. It defaults to an empty value.

This specifies the amount of time, in seconds, to wait for a server response. If you experience problems with a slow network connection causing Subversion operations to time out, you should increase the value of this option. The default value is 0, which instructs the underlying HTTP library, Neon, to use its default timeout setting.

This specifies whether or not Subversion should attempt to compress network requests made to DAV-ready servers. The default value is yes (though compression will only occur if that capability is compiled into the network layer). Set this to no to disable compression, such as when debugging network transmissions.

This is an integer mask that the underlying HTTP library, Neon, uses for choosing what type of debugging output to yield. The default value is 0, which will silence all debugging output. For more information about how Subversion makes use of Neon, see Chapter 8, Embedding Subversion.

This is a semicolon-delimited list of paths to files containing certificates of the certificate authorities (or CAs) that are accepted by the Subversion client when accessing the repository over HTTPS.

Set this variable to yes if you want Subversion to automatically trust the set of default CAs that ship with OpenSSL.

If a host (or set of hosts) requires an SSL client certificate, you'll normally be prompted for a path to your certificate. By setting this variable to that same path, Subversion will be able to find your client certificate automatically without prompting you. There's no standard place to store your certificate on disk; Subversion will grab it from any path you specify.

If your SSL client certificate file is encrypted by a passphrase, Subversion will prompt you for the passphrase whenever the certificate is used. If you find this annoying (and don't mind storing the password in the servers file), then you can set this variable to the certificate's passphrase. You won't be prompted anymore.

This instructs Subversion to cache, or not to cache, passwords that are supplied by the user in response to server authentication challenges. The default value is yes. Set this to no to disable this on-disk password caching. You can override this option for a single instance of the svn command using the --no-auth-cache command-line parameter (for those subcommands that support it). For more information, see the section called “Client Credentials Caching”.

This setting is the same as store-passwords, except that it enables or disables disk-caching of all authentication information: usernames, passwords, server certificates, and any other types of cacheable credentials.

This specifies the program Subversion will use to query the user for a log message during a commit operation, such as when using svn commit without either the --message (-m) or --file (-F) options. This program is also used with the svn propedit command—a temporary file is populated with the current value of the property the user wishes to edit, and the edits take place right in the editor program (see the section called “Properties”). This option's default value is empty. The order of priority for determining the editor command (where lower-numbered locations take precedence over higher-numbered locations) is:

The value of any of these options or variables is (unlike diff-cmd) the beginning of a command line to be executed by the shell. Subversion appends a space and the pathname of the temporary file to be edited. The editor should modify the temporary file and return a zero exit code to indicate success.

This specifies the absolute path of a differencing program, used when Subversion generates “diff” output (such as when using the svn diff command). By default Subversion uses an internal differencing library—setting this option will cause it to perform this task using an external program. See the section called “Using External Differencing Tools” for more details on using such programs.

This specifies the absolute path of a three-way differencing program. Subversion uses this program to merge changes made by the user with those received from the repository. By default Subversion uses an internal differencing library—setting this option will cause it to perform this task using an external program. See the section called “Using External Differencing Tools” for more details on using such programs.

This flag should be set to true if the program specified by the diff3-cmd option accepts a --diff-program command-line parameter.

When running the svn status command, Subversion lists unversioned files and directories along with the versioned ones, annotating them with a ? character (see the section called “See an overview of your changes”). Sometimes, it can be annoying to see uninteresting, unversioned items—for example, object files that result from a program's compilation—in this display. The global-ignores option is a list of whitespace-delimited globs which describe the names of files and directories that Subversion should not display unless they are versioned. The default value is *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store.

As well as svn status, the svn add and svn import commands also ignore files that match the list when they are scanning a directory. You can override this behaviour for a single instance of any of these commands by explicitly specifying the file name, or by using the --no-ignore command-line flag.

For information on more fine-grained control of ignored items, see the section called “Ignoring Unversioned Items”.

This instructs Subversion to automatically set properties on newly added or imported files. The default value is no, so set this to yes to enable Auto-props. The auto-props section of this file specifies which properties are to be set on which files.

This variable sets the default character set encoding for commit log messages. It's a permanent form of the --encoding option (see the section called “svn Options”). The Subversion repository stores log messages in UTF-8, and assumes that your log message is written using your operating system's native locale. You should specify a different encoding if your commit messages are written in any other encoding.

Normally your working copy files have timestamps that reflect the last time they were touched by any process, whether that be your own editor or by some svn subcommand. This is generally convenient for people developing software, because build systems often look at timestamps as a way of deciding which files need to be recompiled.

In other situations, however, it's sometimes nice for the working copy files to have timestamps that reflect the last time they were changed in the repository. The svn export command always places these “last-commit timestamps” on trees that it produces. By setting this config variable to yes, the svn checkout, svn update, svn switch, and svn revert commands will also set last-commit timestamps on files that they touch.