Re: svn commit: r31535 - in branches/1.5.x: . subversion/po

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
> "David Glasser" <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> writes:
>>> 1. In the future, should we add a capabilities check in pre-commit?
>>> (I haven't thought deeply about what's involved in doing that, but
>>> hey, we could at least get newer clients and servers doing it
>>> reliably -- the rest is a compatibility dance).
>>>
>>> 2. I don't quite understand your last paragraph. How is whether or
>>> not we can check a capability related to which paths the user is
>>> committing on? Could you say it more verbosely, maybe?
>>
>> We could pass information from start-commit to pre-commit by setting a
>> txnprop. This is almost certainly a bad idea.
>
> Well, more to the point, it wouldn't be "us" that does that -- it would
> be the hooks themselves, which hook authors are free to do right now.
> (Interhook information passing is a time-honored tradition over in
> CVS-land, by the way.)

Right, I meant "we" in the sense of "the maintainers of the
svn.collab.net repositories".

--dave

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