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Re: howto pass command-line option from svn client to repository....(new option --skip-post-commit)

From: Lucas van Staden <lvs_at_softhome.net>
Date: 2005-11-15 22:28:45 CET

Hi.

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 14:43, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Lucas van Staden wrote:
> [snipped: Using svn in web development environment.
> Many branches. Wants to automate Apache/DNS setup that goes along
> with creating a new branch.]
>
> > I have begun to automate this process using the hook scripts, so now when
> > we use our svn clients (linux) to create a branch folder, and commit this
> > folder to the repository, the hook scripts create the required apache
> > folder (more on this in next paragraph), creates the apache vhost entries
> > (working) and adds the required dns entry into bind (working), which then
> > gets replicated to the main windows domain dns servers (waiting for the
> > network guys to get back to me on this).
> >
> > (and breathe again)
> >
> > Sofar everything is working good, appart from the creation of the apache
> > folders (the most crucial bit - read on this is a development
> > issue...;)..), the process is as follows:
> >
> > Post-commit hook script checks to see a folder with the name of the
> > branch exists, and if not creates it, and does an inplace checkout as
> > described in the faq to make it an active svn workdir to the branch in
> > the repository. It then copies all the source files (php/javascript/html
> > templates) into this folder, and does a svn add on these, followed by a
> > commit (can you see the issue yet?)
>
> OK, now this is the first bit which puzzles me. The client is creating
> an empty directory to contain the branch, and then the server fills it
> in? Why do things this way, rather than have the client do "svn copy
> TRUNK-URL BRANCH-URL", and have the post-commit just do a checkout of
> the new branch?
>
> ...

:) Yes, i have been overthinking things (sometimes I go a bit crazy, ok....)

>
> > The issue is that when the post-commit script does the commit, the commit
> > itself triggers the post-commit script again. This can at times send the
> > process into an endless loop, and also slow the process down, creating
> > more new folders etc.
> >
> > Now I thought of creating a new option called --skip-post-commit for the
> > svn client, which would then be included in the svn commit used by the
> > post-commit script.
>
> Whoa! Serious over-engineering.
>
> If the post-commit is only supposed to do anything when it sees a branch
> directory being created, just make the post-commit check whether this is
> the case, and exit if not, before doing anything else.
>
> Max.

Once again, I been a bit crazy...., I have already dropped this idea.

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