On May 15, 2014, at 17:51, Havlovick, Ron wrote:
I am a newbie and I am more than a bit confused.
Perhaps ya'll could tell me something. (Other than to …..)
I am on Windows using tortoise svn.
Here's what I want to do, and I am trying to figure out exactly how to do it.
Please bear with me:
When I commit a file into the repository, I want the entire repository
directory(folder) to be checked out to a golden directory(folder).
I do not care if it over writes any existing file in that golden
directory(folder).
Create an empty text file in the golden directory(folder).
In the empty text file write to it the revision number of the repository
directory(folder) and the date of the last commit (basically the date stamp
of the repository directory(folder).
I can write a perl script to basically copy files from one directory to
another (golden).
read the data stamp of the directory(folder).
ctime(stat($directory….)-my_time)
What has got me baffled is:
How to get the revision number of the repository directory(folder). (Is this
just a regular folder on the server and I just have the path
\\server\directory wrong)
How to get the date stamp of that repository directory(folder). (This could
be if I have the path wrong then I am trying to read statistics on nothing.)
Assuming I have the perl script correct, where do I put the perl script in
what post_hook or post_commit?
Do I call the perl script within the post_commit { function or what…
And where do I put the combined perl script post_hook script? (In the svn
directory on my PC or on the server)
When I run the perl script on a local directory via the command prompt,
everything works. (But I am not pointing to the repository, just a local
c:\folder.)
Look in the repository directory on the server. You should see among other
things a hooks directory, containing sample scripts for each of the events
for which Subversion can call hook scripts. These sample scripts have names
ending in .tmpl. They're written in Bash, which is for UNIX systems and won't
usually work on Windows; for Windows, you'd need to write a batch script or a
compiled executable. You'd place this script in the hooks directory, named the
same as the relevant sample script, except without the .tmpl extension and
with an extension appropriate for the type of file (e.g. post-commit.bat for
a batch script, post-commit.exe for a compiled executable). Some other
extensions are recognized by Subversion server on Windows as well, although I
don't believe .pl is one of them, so you should probably write a small batch
script or exe that runs your perl script.
The comments in the sample scripts tell you what arguments Subversion server
supplies to the hook script when it runs it. For example, the post-commit
script is given the repository path on disk as the first argument and the
just-committed revision number as the second argument. So in Bash on UNIX, the
repository path would be available as $1 and the revision as $2; I don't
know how that works in Windows batch files but there's probably a similar way
to do that. So in Bash on UNIX, I could use that information to get the date of
the commit by running svnlook date $1 -r $2.
