On Nov 10, 2006, at 17:42, Phil wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:42, Phil wrote:
>>
>> > All I really need is something to set svn:needs-lock on all
>> > commited files...
>> > perhaps someone can point me in the right direction?
>> >
>> > I am no programmer unfortunately... I am not too interested in
>> > checking to see if the file has it set or not... I would rather
>> > just set it to svn:needs-lock for everything...
>> >
>> > is this possible at the server end? I know I can do this with auto-
>> > props at the client side... but that is too risky...
>>
>> No, that's really not how it's done in Subversion. There is no way to
>> force all files to be that way on the server side. The Subversion way
>> to do it is:
>>
>> - Set up the clients to set the property on the desired files, e.g.
>> with auto-props
>> - Install a pre-commit hook to reject commits of files that do not
>> have tho property
>
> when I say never seen one... I mean I looked throughout the archive
> of subversion-users and everyone that asked about svn:needs-lock
> always gets told the same thing "set up your clients to apply
> svn:needs-lock then use a hook script to check that it is applied
> and reject if it is not" which is great advice... however the
> problem is that whenever anyone has ever asked how to actually
> program a hook script to do just that... everyone points them to
> the SVN book or example scripts but they really do not help for
> hook scripts...at least in this case...
>
> so does anyone know of a hook script, that works or has been
> tested, that can check for svn:needs-lock for a pre-commit hook
> script?
- Put ensure-needs-lock.pl and pre-commit into your hooks directory
- Change "/path/to/repos" to the absolute path to your repository in
pre-commit
- Change "/usr/bin/svnlook" and "/usr/bin/env" to the correct path to
svnlook and env, respectively, within ensure-needs-lock.pl, if necessary
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