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Re: Creating a pre-commit hook for copy operations

From: Alexey Neyman <stilor_at_att.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:51:32 -0700

Another (and possibly easier) way is to use fs.paths_changed2 - the entries in
that hash have copyfrom_path/copyfrom_rev fields indicating the source of the
copy.

Regards,
Alexey.

On Friday, August 15, 2014 11:24:18 am Keath Milligan wrote:
> Thanks, Eric. svnlook gave me the clue I needed. I look at its source and
> found that I had been on the right track using ChangeCollector and replay2,
> but there was an error in my code. Once I got that fixed, my hook worked.
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Eric Johnson <eric_at_tibco.com> wrote:
> > I had a similar problem of needing to look for copies. Rather than deal
> > with the complexity of the API, I simply relied on the "svnlook" command
> > output.
> >
> > Specifically, I used "svnlook --transaction ${tx_id} changed
> > --copy-info", and parsed the result.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Keath Milligan <keath_at_keathmilligan.net>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> We're using Subversion 1.8.3 and need to create a pre-commit hook that
> >> checks copy operations (specifically branch creation) for certain
> >> conditions. Specifically, we want to be able to prevent users from
> >> creating branches in the wrong locations and similar errors.
> >>
> >> To accomplish this, we need to know the source and destination paths of
> >> the copy operation. Our current pre-commit hook (written in Python) uses
> >> a delta.Editor subclass to check other things. We tried overriding the
> >> add_directory method, which has a copyfrom_path argument -- this would
> >> have been perfect, but this argument is always empty.
> >>
> >> We also tried using the repos.Changecollector and repos.replay2, but
> >> this doesn't seem to give us information about the pending commit --
> >> perhaps we are doing it wrong.
> >>
> >> Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
Received on 2014-08-16 00:52:09 CEST

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