Re: Pre-commit transaction modification question

Brett Wooldridge <brettw@riseup.com> writes:

> Would it be possible for the server to pass the new checksum back to
> the client in the commit-response?

Just about anything is possible if someone is prepared to design and
implement it. Are you proposing that the file I commit gets modified
by the repository and then my working copy version of the file gets
changed to match that in the repository? That would mean that the
exact version of the the file I committed (the one I tested) gets
lost. Will your pre-commit run build and regression tests with the
modified file to verify that the changes are sensible? I guess that
might be academic, if your developers cannot format files correctly
they probably can't write regression tests.

I can see that the idea of modifying the txn in pre-commit is
attractive, I have yet to see an example where I would want it to
occur in practice. I suppose it might work for something like
automatically modifying a file not otherwise involved in the
transaction, accumulating log messages in a Changelog file perhaps.

-- 
Philip Martin
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