Installation and Files

SmartSVN stores its configuration files per-user. The root directory of SmartSVN's configuration area contains subdirectories for every major SmartSVN version, so you can use multiple versions concurrently. The location of the configuration root directory depends on the operating system.

Location of SmartSVN's settings directory

Tip

You can change the directory where the configuration files are stored by the system property smartsvn.home.

Notable configuration files

Company-wide installation

For company-wide installations, the administrator can install SmartSVN on a network share. To make deployment and initial configuration for the users easier, certain configuration files can be prepared and put into the subdirectory default (within SmartSVN's installation directory).

When a user starts SmartSVN for the first time, following files will be copied from the default directory to his private configuration area:

The license file (only for Enterprise licenses and 10+ users Professional licenses) can also be placed into the default directory. In this case, SmartSVN will prefill the License field in the Set Up wizard when a user starts SmartSVN for the first time. When upgrading SmartSVN, this license file will also be used, so users won't be prompted with an 'license expired' message, but can continue working seamlessly.

Note

Typically, you will receive license files from us wrapped into a ZIP archive. In this case you have to unzip the contained license file into the default directory.

JRE search order (Windows)

On Windows, the smartsvn.exe launcher will search for an appropriate JRE in the following order (from top to bottom):