Re: How to prevent empty log messages?

On 16-Jun-2008, at 12:08 , Andy Levy wrote:

> The default pre-commit hook script template (pre-commit.tmpl in your
> repository's hooks directory) demonstrates exactly this. There are
> also numerous examples findable via Google and the SVN Users list
> archives.

A bit late to the thread, I realize. :)

The default pre-commit hook is useful, but I'd like to offer up this
modification of it, which will provide commandline clients with a
useful error message:

# Make sure that the log message contains some text.
SVNLOOK=/usr/local/bin/svnlook
TEXT=`$SVNLOOK log -t "$TXN" "$REPOS" | grep "[a-zA-Z0-9]"`

if [ "x${TEXT}" = "x" ]; then
     echo "Empty commit message." 1>&2
     exit 1;
fi

I haven't (yet) tested this with tortoise or any other GUI client, so
I'm not sure how they'll behave with the returned error message. This
might be useful to some people though.

Matt