Re: More pre-revprop-change hook woes

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>All in all, I think your idea is more "right", in a negative sense: an
>orthogonal and elegant feature, more complex and difficult to maintain
>and which gives little benefit. What I proposed is certainly uglier, but
>is a one-line change, with no downsides: what's the worst it could
>happen? What's the chance a SVN admin will put .py or .pl files in a
>hooks/ dir that *aren't* scripts?
>
>

Or what happens when the admin puts a perl script in hooks/, and
Subversion recognizes it, but Windows doesn't think it's executable?

>I cannot deny I'm scratching my own itch there: I'd love to be able to
>put Perl scripts in hooks/ without having to jump through the "@REM='"
>hoop :)
>
>

Maybe we should just use %PATHEXT% and document that admins should make
sure their favourite scripting language file extensions are there.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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