On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 6:17 PM Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18. 2. 26 17:49, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There was a message on the TortoiseSVN mailing list suggesting to add >> cmd.exe based hook script templates to repositories created on Windows[1]. >> >> I think it was a great suggestion and I started thinking about how it should >> be implemented. >> >> We currently create /bin/sh based hook script templates (see around line 392 >> in repos.c[2]). sh (bash) is not generally available on Windows and from >> what I can tell there would at least be some path style conversion issues >> (c:\repositories\xyz\ vs. /c/repositories/xyz/). >> >> I see two options - on Windows: >> 1. Keeping the existing sh based templates and adding cmd.exe based >> templates as well. >> 2. Creating only cmd.exe based templates. >> >> (On other platforms there would be no change in behaviour). >> >> I think option 2 makes more sense, but maybe it would be "non-backwards >> compatible" if we stop offering the sh templates. OTOH I don't see how they >> would have worked anyway. >> >> Thoughts? > > The only thing that would make sense in a cross-platform kind of way would be > to convert those templates to Python. and use that on all platforms. Just as > we do in our test suite.
Unfortunately Python isn't generally present on Windows either. If one would go for the lowest common denominator on Windows I think it would have to be cmd.exe (or perhaps powershell). -- Johan
