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Re: Partial read-only repository?

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2002-04-12 03:33:41 CEST

Tim Moloney <moloney@mrsl.com> writes:

> > You could write a pre-commit hook that uses svnlook to determine which
> > paths were being modified. If the tags directory is being modified,
> > and if those mods were anything more than just the creation of a new
> > tag, the hook returns and error, and the commit doesn't happen. You
> > could even have the script send email to the would-be committer
> > saying, "I know what you tried to do, buck-o!"
>
> Thanks for the info.

No problem!

> I don't have it running perfectly yet but I do have a few
> comments for the archives.
>
> .../svn/subversion/libsvn_repos/hooks.txt is a good place to
> start. However, it needs to be updated to show the scripts in
> the <repos>/hooks directory, not the <repos>/conf directory.

Ah...good catch!

> It would also be nice to mention that the script has to be
> executable by the owner of the httpd process. This tripped me
> up for a little bit.

Well, technically it has to be executable by the owner of the process
accessing the repository, which in DAV-ish cases is the same as the
user that httpd runs as, but is not really true over RA-local.

I see that Karl did not note this as carefully as I've stated above in
his patch (though I didn't check the context of his addition to see if
it was talking only about Subversion as access via Apache).

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