On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 07:25:00PM +0530, yerra babji wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to show some custom message which I get from svn pre-commit > > hook to users on successful check in. > > > > I am able to show custom message when pre-commit gets failed. But unable > to > > redirect the message when pre-commit succeeded > > > > Could you please suggest me the way to display my custom message > > on successful pre-commit hook return > > > > Thanks, > > Babji > > There is no nice way to do this, sorry. Any output from the pre-commit > hook is discarded if no error occurs. > > Usually notifications are sent from the post-commit hook not to the > SVN client but to some other channel, such as a mailing list, a website, > a feed, etc. For that purpose you might want to take a look at > svnpubsub, see http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html#svnpubsub and > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/server-side/svnpubsub/ > > If you really want the SVN client to display a custom message after every > commit, as a crude workaround you could print the desired output to stderr > from the post-commit hook and always exit 1 from the post-commit hook. > But to the user this will always look like an error at first sight. > IMHO that does not sounds like a great idea as for clients like TortoiseSVN overlay does not get updated if post-commit hook fails every time you need to refresh to see updated overlay. -- Vishwajeet Singh +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet
