Re: Hook to check for a presence of file before committing

SVN has a pristine copy of the checked-out files along with the working copy. When you issue a commit, SVN compares the pristine and the local files and _only_ sends the diffs. So the presence of any file doesn't automatically mean that it will be visible in the commit _unless_ it changes every time.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jim

On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Tech Geek wrote:

> >You want to enforce that the developer cannot commit unless they have this project.xml in >their working copy, though it will never be sent to the repository.
> That's not true. The project.xml (or whatever file that particular file is) should also be a part of commit.
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> I will again repeat my question again since there is so much confusion:
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> Can we have a pre-commit (preferred) or post-commit server hook that can check for the presence of a particular file (say project.xml) when the users send their working copy to the server to commit? If the file is present accept the commit (along with that file) else reject the commit.
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> I would prefer not to implement this on client side.
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> I never thought this would be so complicated.
Received on 2010-08-31 18:30:26 CEST