Re: revprop change notifications (was: svn commit: rev 5289 ...)

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> > There is some argument for using a tempfile for the post-revprop
> > hook, but that also opens up the whole "What happens if no one
> > cleans up the file?" question, as well as unintuitively involving
> > two hook scripts in what most people would imagine is a
> > one-hook-script problem.
>
> No, actually, it doesn't open that question. The repos layer is
> required to clean up that file. How hard is that?
>
> > IMHO, stdin is a *much* cleaner solution; I'm implementing it now.
>
> STDIN is also much more limited; please reconsider.

You know what? Never mind. If a script wants to be able to have
random access on the property value, *it* can write the thing to a
tempfile and worry about the cleanup.

Go forth in STDINity, my son!

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Received on Fri Mar 14 06:36:21 2003