Hello,
Our solution to our customer involves a tight integration into
subversion for document exchange.
The problem is:
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The customer is unwilling to accept our current solution as he needs a
approval process to be in place before the document is committed into
Subversion. The approval process is critical for the business to meet
its regulatory needs. Subversion is critical too, since it helps in
managing versions and trace of the documents committed.
We would like to use hooks to trap any commit into subversion. The idea
is to use this event to
a) get the document(s) commited to go into the approval process, and
more importantly the document is not to be committed into subversion.
Otherwise others can get access to a unapproved version through a update.
b) if the document is approved, then checks for conflicts can be made,
before the commit. If no conflict, then its checked in, else the file
originator can be notified to update the document accordingly.
Unfortunately Subversion subversion does not provide
a) the contents of the file for this hooks for users to view for approval
b) provide an api where another process acting as a proxy (like our
solution which plans to sit between svn client / server) which can
commit the code and not the client
Kindly note :
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that I have scanned the previous mails being submitted to this forum and
others too before posting this question. The main reasoning for not
providing any of the above 2 are because it can send subversion into an
inconsistent state. But, with the right api's and data to hooks, I think
this can be synchronized.
If there is a optimal solution for this problem, then it can scale to
other areas like approval process for code updates into repository
instead of a "blind" commit.
Can someone please guide me how I can solve the problem with what we
have currently with Subversion?
Any inputs / help would be much appreciated as the project has now gone
into a pause and we are unaware of any other way to progress from here.
Pat
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Received on Sun Sep 2 22:42:19 2007