Re: Hook script questions

----- Original Message -----
  From: Linda Halligan
  To: users@subversion.tigris.org
  Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:20 PM
  Subject: Hook script questions

  Please don't beat me with the RTFM stick. I've searched for a few days now and I'm not able to find an answer to my question.

  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?

  If someone could point me to an example of how this could be done I would be eternally grateful.

  -Linda

Now, now, no sticks on newbies (unless they're into it: I have some SCA friends). Post-commit is really a server side command: if the clients are known, you could use an SSH or other remote access tool to push an update to it.

But instead, if I may suggest, why not have the client simply run a query on a cron-job basis to see if there have been any changes in that project? Use "svn info -r HEAD /workingcopy" and parse out it's URI and revision number. If there is a difference between them, pull the update instead of pushing. That's how I've done it for a website under subversion.
Received on Fri Jul 7 00:12:15 2006