How to configure a HTTP proxy for svn

Question

I want to check code from the repository http://code.sixapart.com/svn/perlbal/ . I can only access the the repository url by setting a proxy. I guess if I want to get the co

Answer 1

There are two common approaches for this:

• Specify http-proxy- options in your /etc/.subversion/servers or %APPDATA%\Subversion\servers file,

• Use --config-option command-line option to specify the same http-proxy- options in single command-line you run. For example,

  svn checkout ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-host= ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-port=   
  

If you are on Windows, you can also write http-proxy- options to Windows Registry. It's pretty handy if you need to apply proxy settings in Active Directory environment via Group Policy Objects.