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Chapter 7. Customizing Your Subversion Experience

Table of Contents

Runtime Configuration Area
Configuration Area Layout
Configuration and the Windows Registry
Configuration Options
Servers
Config
Localization
Understanding Locales
Subversion's Use of Locales
Using External Editors
Using External Differencing and Merge Tools
External diff
External diff3
External merge
Summary

Version control can be a complex subject, as much art as science, that offers myriad ways of getting stuff done. Throughout this book, you've read of the various Subversion command-line client subcommands and the options that modify their behavior. In this chapter, we'll look into still more ways to customize the way Subversion works for you—setting up the Subversion runtime configuration, using external helper applications, Subversion's interaction with the operating system's configured locale, and so on.