Re: Messages from hooks

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:25:33 +0100
Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl> wrote:

> If I understand correctly, for serious/large/distributed
> development one is to use http access. And those are the cases
> when custom hooks are used more frequently than in small&simple
> repositories.

I'm just a Subversion user, not a developer, so I can't really comment
on this, but I get the impression that svnserve could be use for fairly
large setups.

> I can't comment on the protocol but doesn't it possess some way
> of telling the client what error has happened (even in non
> hook-related case)?

I don't know if WebDAV/DeltaV supports passing error information back
(other than "the request failed" and a status code, as it's doing now).

> email also does not seem to be good fit. Even leaving the problem
> whom to send this email, this really does not seem to be natural
> to run command line utility and then check the inbox. And email
> does not always come immediately.

Sure. You don't have to convince me, I already think Subversion hooks
are a weak spot on an otherwise wonderful system. I'm just saying that's
the way it is now.

                                                                Juanma

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Received on Thu Feb 19 16:40:22 2004