Re: Can I refuse commits containing virus infected files on the server?

On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:59, Tim Bruijnzeels wrote:

> Is it possible to refuse commits to a subversion repository based
> on the
> content of files that are being committed? And if so, how?

[snip]

> My first idea was to write a pre-commit script, that:
> - passes the new files to a virus scanner
> - fails (exit 1) if any of them contain a virus; preferably giving the
> user a warning.
>
> But from what I have found so far is that during a pre-commit I can
> get
> access to all meta-data (author, log message, filenames, etc), but not
> the actual files themselves. Does anybody know:
>
> a) whether this can actually be done

You can look at the files' contents in the pre-commit hook by using
"svnlook cat" on the incoming transaction.

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Received on Wed Jan 18 21:14:59 2006