Re: Commiter's IP address in commit comment?

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, John Peacock wrote:
> There is no way currently to inject additional meta-data during a commit;
> in fact this is by design. If you were to alter a transaction during a
> commit, the data on the server would not be the same as the data on the
> client, with predictable problems.

Well, you can't change file contents or properties, but a post-commit
hook can change the log message. Get the old message with:

    svnlook propget --revprop -r ${REV} ${REPOSITORY} svn:log

and set the new message with:

    svnadmin setlog --bypass-hooks -r ${REV} ${REPOSITORY} ${TEMPFILE}

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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Received on Fri Dec 21 13:40:00 2007