Re: property hooks (e.g. tsvn:startcommithook)

On 7 February 2013 14:20, Hans-Emil Skogh <Hans-Emil.Skogh_at_tritech.se> wrote:
>>>> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if we'll see an implementation
>>>> of the client-side hooks based on properties such as
>>>> tsvn:startcommithook in a 1.7 TSVN release?
>>>> Or will we need to wait for 1.8?
>>> This would most likely open up a pretty sizeable security hole. So my
>>> guess is that it's not going to happen. Sorry.
>> in 1.8, those properties exist:
>> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-propertypage.html#tsvn-dug-propertypage-tsvn-props
>
> Ah. I missed that. The nightly documentation still has the section about why it's *not* implemented with properties.
> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-hooks
> Perhaps that should be replaced with a link to the properties section?

Still on my todo list ...

>> To prevent a security hole: every script that's set this way must be first
>> approved by the user. If not approved, the script is not run.
>
> Hmm... Still not sure how good idea this is. It will be difficult for a user to know on what grounds to approve such a script. And then it will be difficult to keep track of that the script does not change on an update. But that's another issue altogether...
>
> Hans-Emil

Simon

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