Re: Can subversion be set up to modify files on commit?

On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:

> I am contemplating a switch from cvs to Subversion for a few fairly
> lare projects and there is one feature of CVS that we use that I am
> not sure how to replicate on Subversion.
>
> Basically, we use the commitinfo feature of CVS (an ability to run a
> script _before_ commit while having access to the files being
> committed) to _modify_ certain files before they are committed. Is
> this sort of thing possible with subversion?

No no no no no no no no no no. :-)

See the giant warning box here:

    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s02.html#svn-ch-5-sect-2.1

>
> P.P.S. Basically, we use this to enforce a few formatting conventions
> on the files - and just rejecting ill-formatted files would not work
> because the users are too lazy

Pre-commit hooks are perfect for enforcing by rejecting commits that
don't conform. But they cannot change the data -- only validate and/or
reject.

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Received on Fri Feb 4 23:05:31 2005