On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, HAND,Nathan wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Thomas [mailto:eric@psteering.com]
> > I'm curious - is there a way, using any of the Subversion
> pre-/post-/start-commit hooks,
> > to alter the actual contents of a source file before it's committed?
> For example, we might
> > want to add a commented copyright notice to every source file, or run
> every file through a
> > "pretty-printer" program to standardize formatting.
>
> The subversion server doesn't have access to the source file. It only
> receives deltas. So it's simply not possible. Consider the common case
> where the subversion server is across a network.
>
Ofcourse it has access to the file in the repository. the problem for
modifying a transaction in a pre-commit hook is, however, that the working
copy would become out of sync and there is no way to tell the WC that
changes have happend on the server.
> The solution in this case it to create a wrapper script for svn. Call it
> "svn-that-modifies-files". Make changes to your source files in that
> script and then call the real svn.
>
Yes, and then you can enforce it in a pre-commit hook. Check that the
contents are valid and if not reject the commit by returning non-zero from
the script. Nte that writing to stderr in the scrit will give the user
some feedback to why the commit was rejected.
Regards,
//Peter
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