Re: svn commit - (no author)

For the record just adding this line to the template file:

if [ "$PROPNAME" = "svn:author" ]; then exit 0; fi

fixed the problem.

I might as well ask what a better chmod code to use is though... 777
just feels sloppy.

-Thanks

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:03:46 -0700, v4r4n <console.cowboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > REPOS should be a regular path to the repos, not a URL.
> I actually tried that earlier and figured the URL was safest, but
> neither worked.
>
> > But why are you hard-setting them at all? Why not do what the
> > template says to do?
> I started to hard-set them all because the script was not working. I
> don't understand what the script is telling me to do. It just says
> what happens.
>
> svn propset requires this hook no matter what. It isn't like I
> started messing with this to see what happens. It doesn't matter that
> this property has no history and will be lost when I overwrite it, so
> the script doesn't really serve a purpose at this time. I don't plan
> on calling other programs to back up the lost data.
>
> The file is executable and not on a windows system, I don't know what
> else the script is telling 'me' to do. I'm a *nix newbie, so nothing
> is obvious.
>
> I thought the template starts with and protects the svn:log, because
> the log property is special and has lots of other forms of
> modification.
>
> Was it expected that I would want to add a:
>
> if [ "$PROPNAME" = "svn:author" ]; then <{do lots of stuff that
> doesn't apply}> exit 0; fi
>
> I just know that svn isn't happy and won't let me change the author property.
>
> Should I just delete what is in the script and feed svn and empty
> pre-revprop-change script?
>
> 'echo "Failing due to wrong property" 1>&2' worked fine:
>
> $ svn propset -r 9 --revprop svn:author "author"
> svn: 'pre-revprop-change' hook failed with error output:
> Failing due to wrong property
>
> $
>
> chmod 777:
>
> $ ls -l
> total 24
> -rw-r--r-- 1 author users 1411 Sep 30 17:17 post-commit.tmpl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 author users 1475 Sep 30 17:17 post-revprop-change.tmpl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 author users 2336 Sep 30 17:17 pre-commit.tmpl
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 author users 2102 Oct 13 13:36 pre-revprop-change
> -rw-r--r-- 1 author users 1952 Sep 30 17:17 pre-revprop-change.tmpl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 author users 1533 Sep 30 17:17 start-commit.tmpl
>
>
>
> On 13 Oct 2004 14:46:42 -0500, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> > v4r4n <console.cowboy@gmail.com> writes:
> > > $ svn propset -r 9 --revprop svn:author "author"
> > > svn: 'pre-revprop-change' hook failed with error output:
> > >
> > > $
> > >
> > > "Failing due to wrong property" is not displayed since the script
> > > probably isn't being executed at all for some reason.
> >
> > I'd still like to see that 'ls -l' of the executable version.
> >
> > -Karl
> >
> >
>

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