SVK::Help::Environment - A list of svk's environment variables
A number of system environment variables influence how svk runs. Below is a complete list of variables you can use to alter svk's behavior.
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.
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 that's not defined.
If you'd prefer to use an external "diff" tool instead of svk's builtin diff library, set this variable to your tool's name or path.
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 tool's name.
If you set this variable, svk's interactive resolver will always perform the command it's set to. For more details about the commands available in svk's interactive resolver, type perldoc SVK::Resolve.
perldoc SVK::Resolve
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 that's not executable, the output will not be paged. svk ignores your $PAGER setting, so you must explicitly set $SVKPAGER if you want paging.
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 executable's name or path.
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.
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 didn't, set $SVKNOSVM to a true value.
These variables only apply to svk on Windows.
Set this variable to the directory you install programs into. It defaults to 'C:\Program Files'.
To install SVK, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm SVK
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install SVK
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.