svnhooks program (was Re: enforcing LF-normalization for svn:eol-style=native files (issue #4065))

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
[...]

>> The argument is that a Subversion server should be enforcing
>> Subversion's invariants.
>>
>> That said, I'm not opposed to doing it via standard hooks. It's a good
>> way to introduce the feature in a way that allows more easily changing
>> it before it hits the APIs and their strict compatibility rules.
>
> Yes, that would be fine I think. I like Ivan's suggestion of creating
> a new standard 'svnhooks' program or something like that, which can
> then be part of standard distributions.
>
I'd like to share my thoughts about 'svnhooks' if someone is going to
implement it.

Introduce svnhooks program with the separate subcommand for each hook
kind: 'pre-commit', 'post-comit', 'pre-lock', 'pre-unlock" and etc.
The polices for svnhooks program defined in conf\svnhooks.conf file.
This makes very easy for user to use svnhooks: just add line 'svnhooks
HOOK-TYPE $*' in each hook and tweak svnhooks.conf configuration file.

svnhooks configuration file has separate section for each policy. For example:
[[[
[check-eol-normalization]
enable = yes

[rev-propchange]
enable = yes
users = svnsync

[edit-log-message]
enable = yes
users = admin, @author
]]]

-- 
Ivan Zhakov