Michael Diers wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:08:28 +0000: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2011-03-09 02:23, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Michael Diers wrote on Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:39:11 +0000: > [...] > >> Wild guess: are you perhaps using the file:// access method when > >> browsing the repository? Hook scripts are run by the Subversion server > >> process. Using the file:// access method effectively disables them. > [...] > > Are you sure? Last I checked, normal clients didn't do authn/authz over > > file://, but did run hooks normally. > > Daniel, > > I stand corrected. When using the file:// access method the hook scripts > are run, albeit in the client's context. This may or may not cause > different behaviour to the "normal" way of running them in the server's > context.
Due to, for example, being run as a different OS user. (And while we're on this topic I'll remind that, over file://, people can circumvent hook scripts by writing a custom svn client that doesn't run them.)
