Re: How to ignore importing files based on filesize?

On Feb 10, 2009, at 07:59, Shrinivasan wrote:

>> Easiest would be client-side, writing a wrapper script around the
>> Subversion client to check the sizes before committing.
>
> We have both linux and windows clients.
> so we can do nothing with the clients.
>
>> If you have a large userbase, with no control of what client is used,
>> you have to do it server-side. Do you need to filter on size only, or
>> size & file type?
>
> Yes.
> We need to work around the server.
>
> We need the filter on filetype and filesize, both.

[snip]

> What to do with the server to create the filters?

In the pre-commit hook, run "svnlook cat" on each file in the
transaction and see how big it is. For example, on Linux, you could
pipe the output of "svnlook cat" through "wc -c" to get the number of
bytes. Then reject the commit if the file is too big.

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Received on 2009-02-11 05:58:17 CET