Let an svn repository be shared among many users. let the svn repository be used to store versions of a database creation script and some other non-code objects. is there a way to display a custom message (ie:that can be read from a file) upon update?
example:
i am working on $project
i change the class encapsulating database queries so that i am also adding a single attribute in a database table -> i need to change the test-database creation script so that it contains the new value
i modify the file post-update-msg (called, i suppose, by the post-update svn hook) by writing in it:
WARNING: the some_db_script changed, you need to generate the test db again
and each client, upon performing an
svn update
command, gets something like:
user@box:~/code/svn-working-copy$ svn update
U many other stuff
U scripts/some_db_script
Updated to revision n+1
WARNING: the some_db_script changed, you need to generate the test db again
user@box:~/code/svn-working-copy$
can it be done via svn hooks? is there another more elegant/better way of doing it?
thanks in advance
In subversion only terms it is not possible, because subversion provides no post-update-hooks
So you will rely on 3rd party tools(maybe your own checkout script?) which should examine the updated files and will display such a message.
I want to point out, that TortoiseSVN supports such post-update hooks (see instructions here),
however you are directly dependent on TortoiseSVN (not so bad, if you ask me) but cannot incorporate other subversion clients(commandline, or IDE-based tools). Also You need to “deploy” these client hooks (as the name said) on each client.