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Asked: 2026-05-21T14:46:07+00:00

I need to use sudo to run svn commands on my project. I have

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I need to use sudo to run svn commands on my project. I have the SVN_EDITOR set to be vi in my own .bash_profile as well as in the root user’s .bash_profile, but when I try to do an svn propedit, I get


svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found

Each time I start a new session, I have to set the SVN_EDITOR. This is a pain. Any suggestions on how/where I can set SVN_EDITOR permanently? This is on CentOS 5.4.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Running commands through sudo doesn’t start a login or “interactive” shell so adding it to various bashrc or profile resource files won’t help.

    As DES said, the quick and dirty way is:

    sudo env "SVN_EDITOR=$SVN_EDITOR" svn propedit svn:ignore .

    But as derobert commented, the better more permanent solution is to run sudo visudo to edit /etc/sudoers , and add SVN_EDITOR to the env_keep option.

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