Re: Suggestions on modifications on commit

Anders Engström wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:33:59AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
>>Anders Engström <aengstrom@gnejs.net> writes:
>>
>>>>And Anders -- you will suffer the same problem in Subversion that you
>>>>did with CVS. We don't have a way (yet?) to push back to the client
>>>>the "actually committed" version of the file. For this reason, we do
>>>>not recomment modifying to-be-committed files in the pre-commit -- the
>>>>committer's working copy will be out of sync with the repository's
>>>>reality.
>>>
>>>Any plans to implement something like this in the future?
>>
>>It could be done, and I think it would be quite useful, but I won't
>>claim that there exist real plans to implement this. Then again,
>>there is a whole world full of eager and able volunteers, and there's
>>no telling what someone might contribute. {nudge, nudge}
>
> Point taken <smile>.
>
> I think the best way to go is to convince the users/management to drop
> the evil MS Word format and use a better document format.. (DocBook,
> OpenOffice, MS Word 10 (XML/HTML)).

Huh? Why does this have anything to do with the document format? As far as I can see, the lack of pushing back a modification made by a pre-commit hook will affect all files equally. OpenOffice bundled gzipped XML documents are particularly difficult to work with in a simple way (in terms of keyword substitution etc.).

Or do you mean that if he used a file format that can have variable-length text fields updated, then he could use Subversion's keyword substitution directly and wouldn't need a pre-commit hook? That's true, but then why is he using a pre-commit hook anyway? If the aim is to get some keyword into the WC file before commit, then run the document-updating program before running "svn commit", using a batch file to reduce the pair to one command for the user.

- Julian

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Received on Mon Sep 29 22:50:29 2003