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The per-user configuration area also contains a cache of authentication data. The
auth directory holds a set of subdirectories that contain pieces of cached information
used by Subversion’s various supported authentication methods. This directory is
created in such a way that only the user herself has permission to read its contents.
Configuration and the Windows Registry
In addition to the usual INI-based configuration area, Subversion clients running on
Windows platforms may also use the Windows Registry to hold the configuration
data. The option names and their values are the same as in the INI files. The file/sec-
tion hierarchy is preserved as well, though addressed in a slightly different fashion—
in this schema, files and sections are just levels in the registry key tree.
Subversion looks for system-wide configuration values under the
HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion
key. For example, the global-ignores
option, which is in the miscellany section of the config file, would be found at HKEY_
LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config\Miscellany\global-ignores
.
Per-user configuration values should be stored under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\
Tigris.org\Subversion
.
Registry-based configuration options are parsed before their file-based ...