Re: Can the commit message be changed by a hook?

On Nov 2, 2006, at 07:53, Erik Forsberg wrote:

> Can I change the commit message written into the repository using a
> hook?
>
> I would like to extract the bug title from the bug database given a
> bug reference, and add it to the commit message automatically.

You should be able to do that in the post-commit hook, yes. Your post-
commit hook is given the repository path and revision number, so you
can issue an "svn propset" command to set the svn:log property of the
revision. Here's a nice one:

#!/bin/sh

REPO="$1"
REV="$2"

SVN=/usr/local/bin/svn

$SVN propset --revprop -r $REV svn:log \
"haha, I'm changing your log message" \
file://$REPO

Note that you also need to install a pre-revprop-change hook to allow
revision properties to be changed, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh

REPO="$1"
REV="$2"
USER="$3"
PROPNAME="$4"
ACTION="$5"

if [ "$ACTION" = "M" -a "$PROPNAME" = "svn:log" ]; then exit 0; fi

echo "Changing revision properties other than svn:log is prohibited" >&2
exit 1

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Received on Thu Nov 2 21:21:43 2006