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Re: How to prevent empty log messages?

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:55:56 -0500

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:53 AM, prakash tiwary
<prakash.tiwary_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> If it is Windows, you can do with perl/Python.
> Perl/Python can fetch the logmessage using "svnlook info -t TXN-NAME
> REPOS-PATH" where
>
> [1] REPOS-PATH (the path to this repository)
> [2] TXN-NAME (the name of the txn about to be committed)
>
> are ordered arguments in pre-commit hooks (see pre-commit.tmpl).
>
> Hope this will help you,
>
> Regards,
> Prakash
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM, prakash tiwary
>> <prakash.tiwary_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Robert,
>> > You can do it with pre-commit hooks at server side. The default
>> > pre-commit
>> > hooks does the same. All you need to do is follow the instructions
>> > inside
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Prakash
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm sending this message to both the TortoiseSVN and SVN mailing lists
>> >> because I'm not sure if this is a client side or server side issue.
>> >>
>> >> I want to setup the subversion server I have to not allow empty log
>> >> messages. I read a few (very old) archived messages on the TortoiseSVN
>> >> mailing list when TSVN was still around version 1. The old posts I
>> >> read spoke of TortoiseSVN actually enforcing the "minimum length" for
>> >> log messages. I've also heard of the server-side implementing a
>> >> post-commit (maybe pre commit?) hook for this as well. I'm not sure
>> >> which approach to take, assuming both options are open. I imagine this
>> >> will probably have to be server-side, since I don't want to have
>> >> everyone have to setup their client.
>> >>
>> >> If anyone could show me how to prevent empty log messages, I'd
>> >> appreciate it. If this requires a post(pre)-commit hook, could someone
>> >> post the code for that and tell me where to put it? Thanks.
>>
>> I took a look at the server side pre-commit.tmpl, and it is using
>> grep. I'm running this on a windows server, will this work? I'm not
>> going to bother trying it until I can be sure. Thanks.
>
>

Mind showing me what the complete pre-commit.tmpl would look like?
Something that would work on windows? Thanks.

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