is-it-possible-to-disable-the-version-control-component (no)

[paul at m.e.i. dot net]

This doesn't seem to actually do anything.

​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFaq#is-it-possible-to-disable-the-version-control-component

Setting the svn dir to /dev/null is rather problematic when you issue the initenv, as it generates a horrible looking error, but otherwise seems to init the env ok.

However, even after adding the the version*=disabled code from that wiki entry, the timeline is still broken with a "/dev/null does not appear to be a Subversion repository" and I was rather hoping the browse source button would disappear alltogether.

I'm not very good at python, but having perused the code, I can't see where there are any self.config.get()s that go anywhere near components/versioncontrol in any file in the trac install.

[paul again]

Actually, the solution to most of this is to this is to add "and restart apache if you're using fcgi or the like" to the wiki entry … Sorry I'm not usually a moron.

Though trac-admin still generates the heinous error if you set the repository to devnull in any case.

[Christian Boos]

Paul, the advice to use /dev/null was wrong (I just fixed the FAQ). You should simply leave the field blank when creating a new environment, i.e. don't specify any path, and all should be well.

To fix your specific setup, go in your trac.ini file and set the repository_dir entry to empty, like that:

[trac]
repository_dir =