On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > On 21.08.2012 21:37, Mark Phippard wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:29 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> wrote:
>> FWIW, I agree it would be nice to have access to svn:log before the >> data is sent from the client. > > I expect this would mean checking for log-file format conformance? Yes. Users use the log file for lots of things that they might validate in the pre-commit hook today. Could be conforming to some kind of template or format, but it often is also something like requiring a link to a bug ID, or some kind of "signed-off" by line etc. >> People could do a lot with that, and if >> it is easier to attach the client version to the txn properties, then >> that is another good reason. >> >> IMO, we have had a LOT of users@ requests for the client version in >> hook scripts. > > Yeah, well, if these requests can also define what the client version > actually is, we can start thinking about a solution. In the meantime, > I'd prefer this information to not be mixed with revision properties; > not least because I can't think of a way of preventing older servers > from just writing such props into the repository. Mike would have to answer that, but ISTR that the client/server negotiation kept the client from sending this information. So older servers would not get the props. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
