>I'm trying to force commits to have an attached author, but I don't >care for requiring passwords. In other words, commits should contain >an author field but there's no enforcing that the committer is who >they claim to be. > >I've tried filtering for an author in the pre-commit hook, but the >user name given in the commit is not passed unless anon-access doesn't >given write privileges, and auth-access is enabled. Furthermore, >without a corresponding author name in the passwd file, I don't think >svnserve makes it to the pre-commit stage at all. > >Are there any recommended solutions for ensuring that commits have an >attached author, or similar field?
Maybe something like this put in place as a pre-commit hook? #!/bin/bash SVNLOOK=/usr/bin/svnlook REPOPATH=$1 TRANSACTION=$2 # get user USER=`$SVNLOOK author $REPOPATH -t $TRANSACTION` # check if the user is empty if[ -z "$USER" ]; then exit 1 exit 0
