Comments on: Require subversion comments – a perl pre-commit hook

By: Dan Walker

Dan Walker — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:48:20 +0000

Nice, clean Perl script. Thanks!

By: Dave Schinkel

Dave Schinkel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:00:36 +0000

I was also told by a former collegue that you can just use the property tsvn:logminsize on your entire repository

By: Dave Schinkel

Dave Schinkel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:43:58 +0000

Nice, thank you!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:11:57 +0000

Dave you could install Perl for Windows and use this script. You'll need to change a few things of course, the path to the svnlook program won't be the same for example. Or you could try a windows batch file.

By: Dave Schinkel

Dave Schinkel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:01:03 +0000

I assume this script would not work by pasting it and using it in a Windows environment. So how would you do this in a Windows environment and add this same kind of hook? Anyone, anyone?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:09 +0000

I can’t for the life of me get my hooks to print in stderr. Not through a bash script, not in python scripts. I managed to do a few errors in the python script which prompted the python interpreter to write those errors through stderr during a commit But other than that? It just won’t work.

Any environmental things that need setting up or some such? hm

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:49:44 +0000

No Commit Without Comment

By: Asim

Asim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:31:22 +0000

Hi Guys,

I’m new to SVN. Its my second day with SVN today and I’m trying to setup a pre-hook to force a properly formatted commit message. I have installed SVN on windows and renamed the pre-hook file to .bat but it throws these error messages.

Does this mean that I need to install some sort of an environment there? Please help!!

Thanks

Error: Commit failed (details follow):
Error: ‘pre-commit’ hook failed with error output:
Error: ‘#!’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.
Error: ‘#’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.
[ long list of this snipped... ]
Error: ‘REPOS’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.
Error: ‘TXN’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.
Error: ‘#’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.
Error: Unknown command: ‘=/usr/local/bin/svnlook’
Error: Type ’svnlook help’ for usage.
Error: ‘$SVNLOOK’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Error: operable program or batch file.

By: Asim

Asim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:03:12 +0000

Hi Rob,
Thanks for the quick update. I actually did download the Windows version and for some reason it has the same pre-hooks as unix then.

I followed these steps to install it:
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/01/16/Setting_up_a_Subversion_Server_under_Windows.aspx

And its running fine as is, no pre-commits message checks though

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:42:48 +0000

I’ve never installed Svn on Windows, but “#!” is a Unix script indicator. The paths you reference also appear Unix-centric. Are you sure you installed the Windows version of Svn server (assuming there is such a thing)? Changing the extension to .bat is meaningless if the syntax is that of a Unix shell script.