Re: svnlook at deleted file in pre-commit returns nothing

"Renaud Waldura" <renaud+subversion@waldura.com> wrote on 01/13/2006
03:14:53 PM:

> I wrote a pre-commit hook to validate XML files. It uses "svnlook
changed"
> to look at the transaction, and cats the file(s) into an XML validator.
> Files that are about to be deleted seem to be empty; "svnlook cat"
returns
> nothing. Is this a bug? I thought the pre-commit phase would not have
> altered the file yet.
>
> Using release 1.2.3 on Solaris 10 in daemon mode, FSFS backend. Client
is
> Subclipse.

If you are using svnlook to examine a transaction, and the file is being
deleted as part of that transaction, wouldn't it be normal for the file in
the transaction to be empty? Why would you expect to get content?

Mark

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