Re: Fail commit if certain text in the commit

Christopher Ness wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:44 -0400, Christopher Ness wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 17:57 +1000, Steve Williams wrote:
>>
>>>I have tried adding the following to the template pre-commit hook
>>>(server running on RH9).
>>>
>>>if $SVNLOOK diff -t "$TXN" "$REPOS" | grep -i "nocommit" >/dev/null
>>>then (echo "Contains nocommit keyword"; exit 1)
>>>fi
>>>
>>>but it doesn't seem to catch the keyword. Is it my Bash scripting (i'm
>>>a total newbie to Bash) or my use of the pre-commit hook? The
>>>pre-commit hook currently works for catching empty log messages, but I
>>>have no idea why this one is not working.
>
>
> Ahem, replying to myself. You mean the "keyword" that is in the file
> itself and not a meta-data property. Didn't get two coffees into me,
> sorry.
>
> This method makes the strong assumption that developers will not have
> files with the string "nocommit" already committed to the repository.
> That's the nature of the diff command.
>
> Seems like it should work from the bash end, but you need to echo your
> message to STDERR for the client to see it upon rejection.

Not sure how to echo to STDERR, but shouldn't the 'exit 1' make the
pre-commit hook fail? It is not doing that, but that statement works as
expected from the bash command-line.

And yes, that keyword was chosen to be sure it did not already exist in
any existing source code.

-- 
Sly
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Received on Fri Jun 10 01:40:37 2005