Re: some hook questions

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Helmut Heidegger wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some questions regarding hook scripts:
> >
> > 1. Do I have to restart the httpd server to take affect of changings in
> > the hook scripts? (also creating start-commit...)
>
> No.
ok, thanks

>
> > 2. I have added some echo commands to see what happens, but there is
> > nothing displayed. Is there a possibility to debug / test the hook
> > scripts?
>
> "There is nothing displayed" is a bit vague. Where do you expect things
> to be displayed?

I just realized, that the hook scripts are running on the server under
the apache process, so I just piped the echo in a tmp file.

>
> > 3. I want to check if someone copies a branch to the tags directory if
> > some svn:external references are correct and uptodate. Can I use
> > commands like svn propget, svn info, svn status in the hook scripts?
>
> You can, but "svn info" and "svn status" only work with working copies,
> not directly with repositories.
>
> > Or is there a better way to get to this info?
>
> You can certainly do a "svn propget" in a post-commit hook. If you use
> the script bindings, or write a program tat links with the Subversion
> libraries, you could examing the properties before the commit, in a
> pre-commit hook.

since I don't know in the hook files which part of repository is
currently worked on svn doesn't help anything. I learned of the hook
examples to use svnlook...

thanks for the answer
Heli

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Helmut Heidegger
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