Re: How to get the client hostname while user committing the code to the repository?

On Wednesday 28 Jul 2010, ram kumar wrote:
> Hi,
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> We are using http protocal. Please find the server and client details
> below. We have to popup some window on the client machine either in pre or
> post commit operation.
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> Prototype is working fine so need to know how to get the client ip adress
> or hostnmae in pre/post commit trigger.
>
> SVN Server: Linux
> SVN Clients: Windows XP
>
> Regards,
> Ramkumar
>

If this is to do with reporting a failure then that can be done by writing to
stderr in a precommit hook. If you want something interactive then I don't
believe that is easily possible. I did a quick test with my setup, which does
a commit over https, the environment that the pre-commit script runs in is
very limited. Subversion only passes enough information to the script to
identify the transaction. The rest of the information can be obtained by
calling out to svnlook.

The best I could suggest is modifying the subversion server code to pass
through to the script the address as an environment variable. Even this might
not be possible if apache does not pass through the client address to the
subversion modules.

> > Hi,
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> > I need the client host information in either pre or post-commit trigger.
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> Good luck with that!! If you're using a single protocol of access, such as
> ssh+svn or HTTPS, it's conceivable that you could adopt a wrapper to do
> something clever and deduce the hostname. But it seems awkward.
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> Why do you want this?

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