Thanks for your thoughts. I am already aware of the possibility of check and reject though checking the presence of the appropriate property evaded me so far.
I quite feel it might contradict the purpose of a versioning system if that system would allow changes within it and not just store in certain way what was handed over to it. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Bruni [mailto:jbr...@icloud.com] Sent: Dienstag, 19. April 2016 22:27 To: Kellner Thiemo, IT124 extern Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to change content of a commit by pre-commit hook? > On Apr 19, 2016, at 12:44 AM, thiemo.kell...@post.ch wrote: > > Hi all > > We export PowerCenter workflows as XML to commit those to subversion. We > would like to make sure that the description attribute of the tags contain > subversion information like Rev or Header. Is it possible to change the > content i.e. the value of the xml description attribute by commit hook? I had > a look at red bean book and search the net for hints. I only found 'svnlook > cat' to echo the content of the file but I did not find a means to alter the > content. Is it possible to achieve or do I need to make a check on the > content and fail the commit if the required bits of information in the > content is not present? > > Kind regards > > Thiemo Have you tried using keywords? http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html You might be able to use a pre-commit hook to verify that the keywords are present and that the svn:keywords property is set on the file -- not the modify the content but to reject the commit if they are missing.
