Question

Is there anybody who has clear instructions on how to add a pre-commit hook that avoids changes to tags subdirectories?

I already searched the internet quite a bit. I found this link: SVN::Hooks::DenyChanges , but I can’t seem to compile things.

Answer 1

I don’t have enough reputation to ‘comment’ on Raim’s answer above, but his worked great, with one exception, his grep pattern is wrong.

I simply used the below as my pre-commit hook (I didn’t have an existing one, you’d need to merge in that case):

#!/bin/sh  REPOS='$1' TXN='$2'  SVNLOOK=/opt/local/bin/svnlook  # Committing to tags is not allowed $SVNLOOK changed -t '$TXN' '$REPOS' | grep '^U\W.*\/tags\/' && /bin/echo 'Cannot commit to tags!' 1>&2 && exit 1  # All checks passed, so allow the commit. exit 0 

The only problem with Raim’s grep pattern is that it only matched ‘tags’ if it was at the ‘root’ of your repo. Since I have several projects in my repo, the script as he wrote it allowed commits on tag branches.

Also, be sure to chmod +x as indicated, otherwise you’ll think it worked b/c the commit failed, but it failed b/c it couldn’t exec the pre-commit hook, not because the hook worked.

This was really great, thanks Raim. Much better and lighter weight than all other suggestions as it has no dependencies!