Re: Hook script questions

On Jul 6, 2006, at 23:20, Linda Halligan wrote:

> I’m setting up a new subversion instance. It will contain a single
> repository with several projects. One of those projects is going to
> be the source for a tomcat based website. I want the website to get
> updated automatically only when the “website” project is updated.
> Since I’m not a coder I’m not entirely sure how to go about doing
> that.
>
>
>
> Is it possible to write a post-commit script that will execute only
> if that portion of the tree has been changed?

Hi Linda! This can definitely be done. The basic strategy for the
post-commit hook would be:

* call "svnlook dirs-changed -r $REV $REPOS" (where $REV and $REPOS
are the parameters passed into the script, as in the example post-
commit hook) to get the list of directories that were changed by the
commit.

* examine each line of the output with for example grep to determine
if the path to your web site was affected

* if so, update a server-side working copy with "svn update"

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Received on Fri Jul 7 00:10:07 2006