Edmund Horner wrote:
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> Ralf.Bauer-Malz@etas.de wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> has anybody already had the idea of writing the version number (or any
>> other keywords) into MS Office documents by pre-commit scripts?
>>
>> I would much appreciate any hints (ideas, solutions?).
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> I think the main problems are:
>
> 1. You'll need a pre-commit program that understand MS Office formats.
> 2. You'll need to somehow modify the data in the transaction. svnlook
> can't do that, but I suppose you could use the SVN bindings to
> manipulate the transaction in the DB. Another method would be to build
> a new transaction from the old one, commit it, and discard the old one
> (somehow).
>
> Other than that it sounds easy. Hope it goes well.
You absolutely *cannot* modify the versioned content of a transaction during
pre-commit, becuase the committing client will not know about the changes,
and will then have a weirdly broken working copy.
You would need to introduce a new variant of successful commit that says to
the client "commit succeeded, but you may *not* assume that you now have the
committed revision of the nodes you sent".
Max.
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Received on Thu Apr 1 13:08:00 2004