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I don like the “.svn” directory name, and prefer “SVN” or something else. How do I change it?

April 26, 2017directory prefer SVN

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I don like the “.svn” directory name, and prefer “SVN” or something else. How do I change it?

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We recommend that you live with “.svn” if you possibly can. If you use some other name, your working copy may not work with Subversion clients other than the one you regularly use. However, if you absolutely must, you can simply change this line in subversion/include/svn_wc.h from #define SVN_WC_ADM_DIR_NAME “.svn” to #define SVN_WC_ADM_DIR_NAME “SVN” then recompile your client.

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We recommend that you live with “.svn” if you possibly can. However, if you are using ASP.NET under Windows, you might need to set the environment variable SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK, as described here. Or you could use a completely custom name for the administrative directory. We recommend against this, because your working copy would probably not work with Subversion clients other than the one you customized. However, if you absolutely must do this, just change this line in subversion/include/svn_wc.