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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Helge Jung <he...@eco-logic-software.de> on 2003/06/29 08:54:38 UTC
Patching file before commit
Hello world,
I've already searched through the svnbook but I didn't find anything
which could help me with my problem:
In my project I've a file called version.txt in which there's only the
version number of my project (so the program knows it's revision number
by reading this file). All what I want is that when someone commits
something this file is updated with the new revision number. In the
hooks there was one making it possible to change files but a) there was
also a warning not to do so and b) the version.txt is never
touched/changed by a user/developer - it should only be changed by the
system.
Has someone a hint and/or solution for me?
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Helge.
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Re: Patching file before commit
Posted by John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>.
Helge Jung wrote:
> In my project I've a file called version.txt in which there's only the
> version number of my project (so the program knows it's revision number
> by reading this file). All what I want is that when someone commits
> something this file is updated with the new revision number. In the
> hooks there was one making it possible to change files but a) there was
> also a warning not to do so and b) the version.txt is never
> touched/changed by a user/developer - it should only be changed by the
> system.
I've been thinking about something like this myself, and I believe I have an
idea which may work. The key is to make "version.txt" a plain file (i.e. not
versioned in the repository), and just have it updated/created by the hook
system for every commit. In other words, use post_commit rather than
pre_commit. I'd have to assume that your repository and web server wc are
located on the same machine (for ease of scripting) or else you have to use ssh
or something to create the file on a remote filesystem.
The only difficulty here is that you must create some other method of generating
this file when checking out a new wc, but that is trivial once you have the
above script.
HTH
John
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RE: Patching file before commit
Posted by Tim Hawkins <ti...@timhawkins.co.uk>.
You could create a small wc on the server, with only a directory containing
the version file, and then schedule a periodic update and commit of the
file.
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From: Helge Jung [mailto:helge@eco-logic-software.de]
Sent: 29 June 2003 11:56
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Patching file before commit
Max Bowsher wrote:
> Maybe you could generate version.txt from `svnversion .` as
> part of your build process.
Good idea but the problem is that the project contains only PHP scripts
so there is no build process. Otherwise I would have thought of
something like that, too.
Thanks anyway,
Helge.
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Re: Patching file before commit
Posted by Helge Jung <he...@eco-logic-software.de>.
Max Bowsher wrote:
> Maybe you could generate version.txt from `svnversion .` as
> part of your build process.
Good idea but the problem is that the project contains only PHP scripts
so there is no build process. Otherwise I would have thought of
something like that, too.
Thanks anyway,
Helge.
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Re: Patching file before commit
Posted by Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>.
Helge Jung wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I've already searched through the svnbook but I didn't find anything
> which could help me with my problem:
>
> In my project I've a file called version.txt in which there's only the
> version number of my project (so the program knows it's revision number
> by reading this file). All what I want is that when someone commits
> something this file is updated with the new revision number. In the
> hooks there was one making it possible to change files but a) there was
> also a warning not to do so and b) the version.txt is never
> touched/changed by a user/developer - it should only be changed by the
> system.
>
> Has someone a hint and/or solution for me?
Maybe you could generate version.txt from `svnversion .` as part of your
build process.
Max.
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Re: Patching file before commit
Posted by kf...@collab.net.
Philip Martin <ph...@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> "Helge Jung" <he...@eco-logic-software.de> writes:
> > In my project I've a file called version.txt in which there's only the
> > version number of my project (so the program knows it's revision number
> > by reading this file). All what I want is that when someone commits
> > something this file is updated with the new revision number.
>
> That sounds like the idea for a keyword that gets expanded once only,
> issue 958.
I don't think it would help, as no one is committing to the file in
question (also, issue 958 is but a solar myth until we have a way to
implement it... :-) ).
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Re: Patching file before commit
Posted by Philip Martin <ph...@codematters.co.uk>.
"Helge Jung" <he...@eco-logic-software.de> writes:
> In my project I've a file called version.txt in which there's only the
> version number of my project (so the program knows it's revision number
> by reading this file). All what I want is that when someone commits
> something this file is updated with the new revision number.
That sounds like the idea for a keyword that gets expanded once only,
issue 958.
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