Re: post-commit script to set keywords/prop-set hit and miss

On Dec 1, 2004, at 6:51 PM, Jennifer Kesterson wrote:

> We wrote a post-commit hook script to set keywords and EOL styles in
> the current repository on files that don't have them set.

Yikes, this is a *really bad* strategy.

   - What's preventing infinite loops? If your post-commit hook does
another commit, does the resulting commit call the post-commit hook
too?

   - Every time a user commits, they have to 'update' again, because
they're immediately out of date. Bleh.

Instead, you should be making your users use 'auto-props' from their
clients, and if that's not enough, you should be using a *pre-commit*
hook to reject commits that don't set properties. Please read this
FAQ:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#auto-props

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Received on Thu Dec 2 05:12:58 2004