Re: Pre-commit transaction modification question

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:18, Brett Wooldridge wrote:

> Any help, pointers, and advice is appreciated.

DON'T DO IT.

If the repository mangles the files as they enter the repository, then
your working copy will be completely wrong. The working copy will
think, "ah, this file I committed is what the latest version looks
like", but in reality, the latest version in the repository is very
different. There's no way for the pre-commit hook to tell the working
copy that it mangled the data.

What Subversion people have done instead is to install a pre-commit hook
which merely *validates* a style, and rejects the whole commit if any
file files to conform. This forces users to run the reformatter.

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Received on Thu Feb 12 00:25:20 2004